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Including several receipts for cash paid in purchase of stock.","Vouchers relating to payments for and dividens on stock in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad purchased by Pichegru and John Woolfolk.","Enclosure: Invoice for goods purchased of E. Andrews by John Hoomes for John G. Woolfolk.","Enclosure: Certificate of redemption by Henry P. Brodnax for John Woolfolk of four tracts of land in Lincoln, Shelby, and Hardin Counties, Kentucky, which had been sold for taxes.","Note: A receipt for money allowed Thomas Swann by the overseers of the poor appears on the same sheet.","Enclosure: An account of James Covington with William W. Dickinson.","Contains accounts of the stage line.","The book contains also stage line accounts.","The estate of John G. Woolfolk in account with Jourdan Woolfolk, Hawes Coleman, and John M. Burke, administrators.","The book contains also blacksmith and grain accounts of Elizabeth P. 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The collection includes correspondence, accounts and vouchers for the stage line run by the Woolfolk family (Allen \u0026  Woolfolk; Jourdan Woolfolk \u0026 Company; and Woolfolk \u0026  Hoomes). Includes records of routes, rates, supplies, arrangements for layover of passengers and mail contracts of the Potomac Steamboat and Stage Company as well as papers concerning stock purchases in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Also includes bound account books for the stage lines. Note: Includes letters written by James Lyons, Timothy Pickering, Robert Ryland and Benjamin Waller; letters of and accounts concerning members of the Maury family; and lists, 1829 and 1837, of vaccinated slaves. Lot 2 consists of about 6000 pieces of papers of the Woolfolk Family of Caroline County, Virginia, dated 1793-1876. 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Including several receipts for cash paid in purchase of stock.","Vouchers relating to payments for and dividens on stock in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad purchased by Pichegru and John Woolfolk.","Enclosure: Invoice for goods purchased of E. Andrews by John Hoomes for John G. Woolfolk.","Enclosure: Certificate of redemption by Henry P. Brodnax for John Woolfolk of four tracts of land in Lincoln, Shelby, and Hardin Counties, Kentucky, which had been sold for taxes.","Note: A receipt for money allowed Thomas Swann by the overseers of the poor appears on the same sheet.","Enclosure: An account of James Covington with William W. Dickinson.","Contains accounts of the stage line.","The book contains also stage line accounts.","The estate of John G. Woolfolk in account with Jourdan Woolfolk, Hawes Coleman, and John M. Burke, administrators.","The book contains also blacksmith and grain accounts of Elizabeth P. 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There are financial records relating to the stage line and mail service, records relating to agricultural business, correspondence, insurance records, military records, records relating to the erection of Antioch Baptist Church, and copies of newspapers.","An article by Vera Palmer in the Richmond Times Dispatch concerning the Woolfolk family, the stage line, and Mulberry Place, the Woolfolk plantation in Caroline County, Virginia.","This file also contains letters relating to the carrying mails and to connections with the Fredericksburg and Potomac Steamship Company, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad.","Note: This file contains also accounts of the Potomac carrying of mail. All the accounts after 1840 pertain to the carrying of mail. See also Bound Volumes.","Note: This file contains also accounts of the Potomac carrying of mail. All the accounts after 1840 pertain to the carrying of mail. See also Bound Volumes.","Note: This file contains also accounts of the Potomac carrying of mail. All the accounts after 1840 pertain to the carrying of mail. See also Bound Volumes.","Note: This file contains also accounts of the Potomac carrying of mail. All the accounts after 1840 pertain to the carrying of mail. See also Bound Volumes.","Trust deed to secure payment to John G. Woolfolk for the purchase of his interest in the stage line from Richmond to Norfolk and in the carrying of mail by that line, and from Osborns to Bermuda hundred.","Scope and Contents Agreement of Edwin Porter \u0026 Co., and Jourdan Woolfolk with NC Lipscomb concerning the boarding of stage drivers and passengers.","Scope and Contents Contract of Jourdan Woolfolk with the United States for carrying the mail from Bowling Green, Virginia, by Turner's Store, to White Chimneys, and back, twice a week.","Scope and Contents Contract of Jourdan Woolfolk with the United States for carrying the mail from Bowling Green, Virginia, by Turner's Store and White Chimneys, to Mahgohic, and back, twice a week.","Lists of subscribers to the Richmond and Potomac railroad survey whose subscriptions were returned by Jourdan Woolfolk.","Papers relating to cash transactions of Jourdan Woolfolk with the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Including several receipts for cash paid in purchase of stock.","Vouchers relating to payments for and dividens on stock in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad purchased by Pichegru and John Woolfolk.","Enclosure: Invoice for goods purchased of E. Andrews by John Hoomes for John G. Woolfolk.","Enclosure: Certificate of redemption by Henry P. Brodnax for John Woolfolk of four tracts of land in Lincoln, Shelby, and Hardin Counties, Kentucky, which had been sold for taxes.","Note: A receipt for money allowed Thomas Swann by the overseers of the poor appears on the same sheet.","Enclosure: An account of James Covington with William W. Dickinson.","Contains accounts of the stage line.","The book contains also stage line accounts.","The estate of John G. Woolfolk in account with Jourdan Woolfolk, Hawes Coleman, and John M. Burke, administrators.","The book contains also blacksmith and grain accounts of Elizabeth P. Woolfolk, 1823-1825, and accounts of the estate of Elizabeth P. Woolfolk,","The book also contains personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","This book contains accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk as administrator, trustee and guardian, and accounts with the stage line.","The book contains also accounts of the estate of John G. Woolfolk and personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","The book contains also accounts of the estate of John G. Woolfolk with Jourdan Woolfolk and personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","The book contains also accounts of the estate of John G. Woolfolk with Jourdan Woolfolk and personal accounts of John G. Woolfolk.","The book contains also a few personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","The book contains also personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","The book contains also many personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","The book contains also personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.","Scope and Contents The book contains also stage line accounts, 1827-1833, and post office department drafts received by J.W. 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Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. 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Va.)","Local/Regional History and Appalachian South","The collection is open for research.","The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.","The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.","The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. Grandy with information about the impact of Reconstruction on the area.)","18 items, with 25 envelopes, n.d..","27 items (includes a contract signed by Nancy Dickson relinquishing all claim to her husband's will to her son Robert.)","21 items (includes renewals of a contract with Lucian F. Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. Dickson, ca. 1916.","21 items.","15 items.","26 items.","27 items (includes correspondence from/to Laura Dickson, his wife.)","15 items (includes indenture contracts [1837, 1839, 1846] for land in Monroe County, Virginia.)","18 items.","44 items.","29 items.","36 items.","Miscellaneous printed material; 7 items.","18 items.","22 items.","American history book (no title available), history to 1829.","An Accompanient to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States...(1836), owned by Rebecca Dickson (daughter of Robert).","13 items (includes Confederate bonds.)","2 items.","8 items (includes two pages pulled from the family Bible.)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. 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Va.)"],"access_terms_ssm":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1988."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Local/Regional History and Appalachian South"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"extent_tesim":["2.8 Cubic Feet 2 boxes"],"date_range_isim":[1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The papers are arranged by family member and then by type of material."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Dicksons were pioneer settlers of Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Joseph Dickson (1749-1822) settled in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from Ireland by way of Pennsylvania in the 1770s. He received land grants originally from the King's land office in 1769, and later from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1785, 1789, and 1795 for property on Howard's Creek. His son, Robert Dickson (1795-1869?), inherited the land and built Locust Hill in 1833, now called Mountain Home. Robert Renick Dickson (1827-1888) and Henry Frazier Dickson (1841-1909), Robert Dickson's sons, inherited the land and in turn left it to their heirs. The Dicksons turned Mountain Home near White Sulphur Springs into a resort in the 1800s and early 1900s. The property and home were owned by the family until they were sold in 1968."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Dickson Family Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Dickson Family Papers, 1769-1924, Ms1988-094, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Dickson Family Papers was completed prior to 2001."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers consist largely of land, property, and goods transaction receipts and documents of each of the four generations of the Dickson Family, who originally settled in what is now Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the 1770s. Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eCertificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Wallace to James Black.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTh. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStatement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTransfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1810; 10 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. 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Certificates, oaths, correspondence, deeds, and a diary are included in Joseph Dickson's papers, along with several sale documents for enslaved people from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Much of the land and goods and many of the enslaved people were exchanged with neighbors and others in the area. Most of Joseph Dickson's documents are individually described in this inventory. The papers of John Dickson (1737-1809, brother of Joseph Dickson), Robert Dickson, Robert Renick Dickson and Henry Frazier Dickson, and Geraldine Dickson Burrow (1879-1943, daughter of Henry Frazier Dickson), are grouped by type of material (for example, financial accounts, correspondence, and land deeds). Within Robert Dickson's correspondence are a few references to the American Civil War, including a letter from a Confederate tax collector demanding payment of his 1863 Confederate taxes. Other interesting documents include the transcript (1916) of the trial of Sallie Dickson (wife of Robert Renick Dickson) who was sued by Henry Frazier Dickson, for payment of rent due to him. The papers also include genealogy charts of the family.","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson was received in his parish and \"has behaved himself in a Verry prudent and exemplary manner,\" signed by M. Johnson.","Certificate stating that Joseph Tooth knows Joseph Dickson \"...to be of good respectable character...and believe him to be of untainted moral character...\"","Certificate asserting that Joseph Dickson lived in Greenbrier County, Virginia, for four years and \"Behaved himself as an honast man aught to Do.\"","Oath to the General Assembly [of Virginia] taken by Joseph Dickson, signed by Geo. Skillem","Marriage certificate of Joseph Dickson and Mary Yung, married March 5, 1772, signed by McHoy(?) in Lebanontown.","Certificate signed by John Dickinson of Augusta County, Virginia, as to Joseph Dickson's good character when Dickson lived on Dickinson's land.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson resided in the Spreading(?) congregation from 1779 to 1780, and \"behaved himself sober and in an inoffensive manner,\" signed by Edward Crawford.","Statement of falsely accusing John Wevans \"with taking goods out of the store of Francis Mara\" made by Mary Wave.","Certificate that Joseph Dickson (son of Joseph Sr.) has lived in East Hanover, Pennsylvania, and learned the hatter trade, signed by Daniel Bradley.","Certificate of military service, signed by Capt. James Smith (n.d.)","From unknown asking Joseph Dickson to give John Humphrys his bond.","Thos. Dunwody to W. Jos. Archer about a survey of Joseph Dickson's.","Th. Edgar to Jos. Dixon about the sale of a cow; mentions W. Kyle, W. Hagreth, and W. Black.","William Wallace to James Black.","Lazarus Ainsworth to Joseph Dickson about payment of a sickel left in Dickson's care.","Th. Edgar of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson acknowledging receiving a horse.","James Welch of Lewisburg to Joseph Dickson about dry goods sold","Joseph Snell to Robert McClentck(?) about an ax he wants to give to Joseph Dickson.","Jacob Baumgardsen to Joseph Dickson about receiving eight pounds cash.","J. Patton to Joseph Dickson for flour sold; Jas. Richards to Joseph Dickson, asking him to send a hat (?) he left for Dickson with Samuel Ruiker or Jas. Kincaid.","Robt. Steele(?) to Joseph Dickson about a possible breach of contract with Miss Cathe McClung.","Charles Mislock(?) to Capt. Joseph Dickson about shodding a horse and drawing blood on a sick man (n.d.).","Robert Humphreys to unknown about a bed he wishes to buy from Mr. [Joseph] Dickson (n.d.).","John Henry asking Joseph Dickson to let Mr. Jno. Hide have the cow Henry left at Dickson's house (n.d.).","Sale of an enslaved man named Gib from John Dean to Joseph Dickson for £65.","Note of payment due for hiring an enslaved person named Patten from John Carpenter to Joseph Dickson.","Agreement between Jno. H. Flood(?) and Joseph Dickson as to the transfer of an enslaved woman named Nan and two children for $5.","Note of payment of £110 for the sale of an enslaved person named Elijah due to Joseph Dickson from John Ewdend of Rockbridge County, Virginia.","Note of payment of £130 from the sale of an enslaved person named Joel from Joel Walker of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of an enslaved person named Jude from Catherine McClung to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of Jeff, an enslaved person, to Joseph Dickson for £51 from Catherine McClung.","Sale of Jane, an enslaved person for $300, by James Kincaide to Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of debt of Joseph Dickson from John Murray of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to John Dickenson of Augusta County, Virginia.","Contract of James Connelly to pay John Dickenson twenty-two pounds.","Contract of John and Joseph Dickson to pay John Dickenson 200 pounds owed.","Promise of Joseph Dickson of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Leonard Beall of Augusta County, Virginia, fifteen pounds owed.","Contract of Robert Armstrong and John Scott to pay John Bollar eighteen pounds \"Good and Lawfull money of Virginia.\"","Promise of Joseph Dickson of of Botetourt County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Baley 125 pounds owed.","Contract for Jacob Rife to pay Jos. Dickson 100 pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay Henry Gaye one pound.","Contract of James Riddle of Augusta County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, four pounds.","Receipt for a bond from Jos. Dickson to John Nivins.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay James Black fifty pounds owed.","Promise of unknown to pay James Humphries eight pounds owed.","Contract for unknown to pay George Stuart six pounds owed.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son John to apprentice as a tailor to Hugh Paul for five years.","Contract for Joseph Dickson, Jacob Vanosdol, Levin Gibson, and Samuel Kincaid to appraise the estate of James Humphries deceased and make a report to the court.","Contract of Joseph Dickson to pay John Ederds(?) twenty-five pounds owed.","Contract of John Atkinson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to pay Joseph Dickson 1000 pounds owed.","Acknowledgement of John Dickson's receipt of \"an old pocket book containing two Bonds\" from John Staufler(?) and Jno. Deem.","Contract of indenture of Joseph Dickson's son George to apprentice as a gunsmith to Nathaniel Kelly.","Contract to release Joseph Dickson of a debt of 350 pounds to Richard Dickson of Greenbrier County, Virginia, due to the loss of the previous contract.","Deed of release from Nancy Dickson, widow of Joseph, to relinquish all rights to the provisions made in her husband's will, turn over his estate to her son Robert, and live off an allowance allocated by her son.","Transfer of a tract of land from John McClinachan to John Davis for twenty-seven pounds.","Sale of a tract of land from John Davis to Joseph Dixon for thirty-seven pounds.","Copy of a grant from 1774 to James Ewing for a tract of land in Botetourt County, Virginia, from John Earl of Dunmore.","Agreement from Joseph Dickson allowing William Crow to live on a certain tract of land owned by Dickson.","Transfer of a tract of land from John Douckwaler of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Jacob Rife.","Exchange of a horse owned by Thos. Dunwody to Joseph Dickson for a tract of land.","Transfer of land from Henry Childers to Joseph Dickson.","Statement of debt of 140 pounds from Joseph Dickson to William Crawford for the transfer of land of Honards Creek.","Promise to deliver thirty acres of land on Honards Creek to Elweis Atwater from Joseph Dickson(?).","Deed of land sold from William Dinwiddie (Dunwoodey?) and his wife Elizabeth to Joseph Dixon.","Transfer of ownership of a tract of land from John Nevins to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Clangman and William Dunwoody.","Contract for payment due from the sale of a tract of land from Joseph Dickson to James Black and William McClung.","Deed of land sold by James Black and his wife Rachel to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of land from George Stuart to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of 125 acres to William McClung from Joseph Dickson.","Transfer of land owned by Donal Alison of Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson for 100 pounds.","Sale of land from Joseph Dickson to Lewis Shalman.","Receipt for sum of $50 to Daniel Allison from Joseph Dickson in payment for land sold.","Deed of land sold to Joseph Dickson Jr. from his father.","Deed of bargain and sale from William Morris and Allen Taylor to William Rennick for 800 acres in unknown area.","Contract binding Frederick Hoober to paying Joseph Dickson 220 pounds owed for a one-fourth acre lot in Lewisburgh, Greenbrier County, Virginia.","Deed for a lot of land in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson from Richard Tyne and his wife Sarah, signed by John Stuart.","Receipt for a \"patton of land\" of seventy acres from Joseph Dickson to Jacob Winslow(?).","Contract to rent land to James Mayer from Joseph Dickson.","Memorandum concerning obtaining a copy of Ewings deed from the Greenbrier office, and distributing it to Edward Rumsey, Allen Taylor, William Morris, and James Byrnside (n.d.).","Receipt from the sale of a white mare from Joseph Dickson to John Young for seven pounds.","Contract for the sale of a \"hourse\" from Honery Childers(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt of the sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to William Jeres(?) in exchange for work done by Jeres.","Contract for transfer of two mares and a horse William Crawford received from Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for transfer of a bay horse from Henry Banks to John Nivins.","Receipt for a bay mare sold by Joseph Dickson to Samuel Miller.","Receipt for the payment of forty shillings for work done by Richard Masters for Joseph Dickson.","Contract for William Wallace of Wythe County, Virginia, to pay £290 to James Black for the sale of two mares, with the promise that if Wallace was not able to pay the stated amount he would give two enslaved people.","Request for M. Edgar to the unknown recipient of the note to give Mr. Kyle a cow, and Edgar would settle the sale with Mr. Hagreth.","Receipt for three pounds in payment for the services of a stud horse owned by Joseph Anderson to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a bay mare from Rueben Wade of Goochland County, Virginia, to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for the sale of a black horse to David Alle(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a horse from Charles Simmons of Bedford County to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a bay mare from Thomas Reid to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Joseph Dickson to James Rollens.","Receipt for the sale of a cow from James Blagg to Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a mare from Wm. McClunson(?) to Joseph Dickson.","Contract between James Anderson and Dorel Jere(?) for the transfer of cattle, witnessed by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a heifer from Samuel Dedman of Kentucky to Joseph Dickson.","Receipt for a cow from Joseph Dickson sold to John Hyde.","Receipt for six head of cattle purchased from Joseph Dickson by Michael Baskal(?).","Contract to exchange a mare owned by James Hammand for a black horse owned by Joseph Dickson.","Sale of a draft (horse?) from unknown to Jacob Rife (n.d.).","Financial accounts, 1771-79; 22 items. Receipts for money received.","Financial accounts, 1780-89; 27 items. Household goods purchased, receipt for 1779 taxes paid by Dickson.","Financial accounts, 1790-99; 34 items.","Financial accounts, 1800-05; 35 items; includes bill for tuition of Dickson's children to \"English school.\"","Financial accounts, 1806-09; 19 items.","Financial accounts, 1810; 10 items.","Financial accounts, 1815, n.d.; 16 items.","Currency conversion tables (pounds to dollars), 1791(?).","Account book/diary, 1806-63 (includes entries by Robert Dickson).","Papers (1775-1810, n.d.); 20 items (including medical cure recipes for the flux, rheumatism, \"stomic ake,\" snake bite, colic, and others, and accounts, receipts, and a warrant from James Alexander to the sheriff of Monroe County, Virginia, concerning John Dickson).","15 items.","33 items.","36 items (includes a letter from the tax collector of the 62nd Virginia district demanding payment of Dickson's 1863 Confederate taxes; and the draft of a letter, dated September 18, 1865, from Robert Dickson to President Andrew Johnson, vowing his allegiance to the government of the U.S.A. and asking for a \"release from the penalties and forfictures to which I am exposed.\")","24 items (includes a letter from people asking to rent a room with the Dicksons at the White Sulphur Springs.)","13 items (includes a letter from J.H.H. 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Cox, employed by Robert Dickson.)","22 items (includes insurance and income tax forms.)","7 items, n.d..","35 items (contains several receipts from Nancy Dickson for her yearly allowance from her son Robert.)","45 items (includes accounts from 1833 relating to the labor and supplies incurred during the building of \"Locust Hill,\" the Dickson family home.)","63 items.","50 items.","29 items.","32 items.","42 items.","46 items.","57 items.","38 items (includes a receipt for Dickson's 1857 taxes.)","56 items.","21 items (includes a January 1865 bill for $15 in exchange for 500 pounds of hay given by Dickson to the Confederate States of America, and a March 1865 request for four bay mules for use by the CSA.)","52 items, n.d..","44 items.","11 items.","Sallie Dickson (Robert Rennick's wife)--trial transcript, Sallie Dickson vs. H.F. 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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. 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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 . 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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 . 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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. 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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. 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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 . 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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. 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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":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_788_c01","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"Accounting records kept by C.M. 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The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Account books"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Account books"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["1 Box"],"extent_tesim":["1 Box"],"date_range_isim":[1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePreferred citation: [Identification of item], R. E. 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Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.","A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.","See the \n            \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"collection_ssim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection \n         ca. 1829-ca.\n         1915."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["38-135"],"unitid_tesim":["38-135"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Laura Ingram"],"creator_ssim":["Laura Ingram"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was purchased by the Library in\n            1922."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of ca. 1000\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n          JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eby \n          John Carl Miller \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis is the curious story of how it happened.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eInterest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n        \u003cblockquote\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n        \u003c/blockquote\u003e\n      \u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePrivate tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThis book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBy 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSuch, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHaving exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the two bound volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBut Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\n          John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIII\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eShortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWord of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eStill another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLetters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAfter a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eV\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOne can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eA number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["JOHN HENRY INGRAM : EDITOR, BIOGRAPHER,\n         AND COLLECTOR OF POE MATERIALS","by \n          John Carl Miller","When \n          John Ingram died in \n          Brighton, England, on February l2, l9l6,\n         he had, as he expressed it, \"a room-full of Poe.\" At that time\n         scholars on both sides of the Atlantic were well aware of\n         Ingram's collection of Poe materials. Both its size and value\n         had been suggested by Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's\n         works, prefaced by an original and controversial Memoir, and\n         its worth had further been proved by the two-volume biography\n         of Poe in which Ingram had published a great deal of new and\n         important information. So impressed was the \n          New England editor and critic \n          Thomas Wentworth Higginson that he\n         addressed an anxious communication to Ingram on February l,\n         l880, about his collection: \"I hope that if you should ever\n         have occasion to sell it or should bequeath it (absit omen! in\n         either case) it may come to some Public Library in this\n         country.\"","Ingram's Poe collection was to grow enormously through many\n         more years, and in the end Higginson's wish was to be\n         fulfilled: it was sold and it did come to \n          America, to the \n          Alderman Library at the University of\n         Virginia.","This is the curious story of how it happened.","Interest in the life and work of \n          Edgar Poe was part of Ingram's childhood;\n         in his adulthood it became his obsession. By his statement, he\n         spent sixty-two years writing about Poe and collecting Poe\n         materials. We can be sure he spent as many as fifty-three, for\n         he published a poem called \"Hope: An Allegory,\" written in\n         imitation of Poe's \"Ulalume,\" in 1863, and in the month before\n         he died he published a tart note, setting the record straight\n         about Dr. Bransby's school at \n          Stoke Newington. He filled the\n         intervening years with almost ceaseless attention to Poe: he\n         wrote two biographies, several Memoirs, more than fifty\n         magazine articles, as well as Prefaces and Introductions to\n         writings on Poe by others, and he published and republished\n         Poe's tales, poems, and essays in eight separate editions.\n         During these years he carried on bitter warfare in print with\n         almost every person who wrote about Poe anywhere, especially\n         if the writer was an American, for \n          John Ingram secretly regarded himself as\n         the sole redeemer of Poe's besmirched personal reputation and\n         as the person most responsible for Poe's renewed, world-wide\n         literary reputation.","II","John Henry Ingram was born on November 16,\n         1842, at 29 City Road, \n          Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his\n         childhood in \n          Stoke Newington, the \n          London suburb where young Poe had himself\n         lived. The \n          Stoke Newington Manor House School, which\n         Poe describes in \"William Wilson,\" was standing in Ingram's\n         youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link\n         between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote\n         an autobiographical account to \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly\n         acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:","\"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I\n               looked at my father's great books and saw how they\n               interested him, to become an author and by the time I\n               could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but\n               in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into\n               my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to\n               read out of Routledge's little volume of \n                Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,\n               something stirred me till I shuddered with intense\n               excitement. \"I felt as if a star had burst within my\n               brain.\" I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could\n               pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a\n               poet!\"","But \n          John Ingram was not destined to become a\n         poet, and he soon realized it. After publishing and\n         suppressing his first volume of poetry in 1863, he wrote a\n         pathetic \"Farewell to Poesy\" in 1864, bidding adieu to what\n         was then the dearest hope of his life.","Private tutors and private schools furnished \n          John Ingram's formal education during his\n         childhood, until he entered \n          Lyonsdown. Later, after he had registered\n         at the \n          City of London College, his father died,\n         and Ingram was forced to withdraw and take up the job of\n         supporting himself, his mother, and his two sisters. On\n         January l3, l868, he received a Civil Service Commission, with\n         an appointment to the \n          Savings Bank Department of the London General Post\n         Office.","Ingram then molded his life into a pattern which he\n         followed doggedly for the rest of his days. He spent his days\n         working at his clerkship and he spent his evenings studying,\n         writing, and lecturing, complaining irascibly when social\n         invitations or professional functions forced him to break this\n         routine.","On Saturday afternoons his friends could always find \n          John Ingram in the \n          Reading Room of the British Museum\n         Library. He had learned to speak and write French,\n         German, Spanish, and Italian (later in life he added a working\n         knowledge of Portuguese and Hungarian). He contributed\n         literary articles to leading reviews in \n          England, \n          France, and \n          America, and he lectured frequently, for\n         pay, on contemporary literature. He broke his persevering,\n         even stubborn, devotion to work and study only occasionally by\n         business trips through \n          Ireland and \n          Scotland or to the Continent, or by trips\n         to the \n          Isle of Wight and other watering places in\n         search of relief from recurring attacks of rheumatic fever,\n         which plagued him all of his life. He was determined to be an\n         author of important books and in 1868, in spite of his\n         difficulties, he made a beginning.","Ingram called his first book Flora Symbolica; or, the\n         Language and Sentiment of Flowers. The book was a history of\n         the floriography, with an examination of the meaning and\n         symbolism, of more than one hundred different flowers,\n         garlands, and bouquets. He wrote long essays on each flower\n         and included with each one colored illustrations, legends,\n         anecdotes, and poetical allusions. His volume was beautifully\n         bound and printed, infinitely detailed, and it revealed\n         clearly his method as an author: he had thoroughly sifted,\n         condensed, and used, with augmentations, the writings of his\n         predecessors (a method of editing and writing he was to use\n         always, while condemning it in others) in this science of\n         sweet things.\" In his Preface, he told his readers with\n         characteristic bluntness: \"Although I dare not boast that I\n         have exhausted the subject, I may certainly affirm that\n         followers will find little left to glean in the paths I have\n         traversed.\" \"It will be found to be the most complete work on\n         the subject ever published,\" he wrote. He was probably right,\n         too. The important thing is that here, very early, he had\n         epitomized his guiding philosophy as a writer and an editor.\n         His job, as he saw it, was to learn all that had been done on\n         whatever subject he was engaged and to strive passionately to\n         produce a work of his own that would be significant for its\n         completeness.","This book on floriography was the product of a rapidly\n         maturing scholar, not that of a youth of nineteen, as his\n         later juggling of his birth date would have it appear. He was\n         actually twenty-six years old when he first demonstrated his\n         abilities as a compiler, editor, and author. Everything about\n         this volume shows that Ingram's methods in bookmaking were\n         rather firmly decided upon before he commenced his important\n         work on Poe, and he altered those methods scarcely at all, no\n         matter what his subject, in the next forty-eight years.","Having served his literary apprenticeship, \n          John Ingram was ready, by 1870, to begin\n         writing books that would, he hoped, be financially profitable\n         and at the same time bring to him lasting literary fame. He\n         had already, for a long while, studied Poe's writings, reading\n         and collecting everything he saw about the poet, and he became\n         possessed by a deep, almost instinctive belief that Poe had\n         been cruelly wronged by the Memoir that \n          Rufus W. Griswold had written and\n         published in l850. And so, \n          John Ingram found his work: he determined\n         to destroy Griswold's Memoir of Poe by proving its author a\n         liar and a forger, and, in time, to write a new biography that\n         would present to the world \n          Edgar Poe as he really was. In order to do\n         these things it would be necessary, of course, for him to\n         examine everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that had\n         been written about Poe, to search for new material, and to\n         learn so much about Poe that he could reconstruct, as it were,\n         the true character of the man and writer, as he felt it to\n         be.","At this point, Ingram's life appeared to have a certain\n         stability. He had a respectable and obviously not too\n         demanding job that assured financial independence, and he was\n         the author of a book popular enough to call for three\n         editions, which brought to him a certain amount of literary\n         recognition. But there was another side to his nature, a\n         darker side that tormented and divided his life. As he began\n         assembling materials for a defense of \n          Edgar Poe he worked spasmodically, beset\n         by worry, self-doubt, trouble, and fear. His temper was quick\n         to explode and his sensitive nature found injury and fault\n         where little or none of either was intended or existed. Some\n         explanation of this duality in his nature is found in a shamed\n         confession he made to Mrs. Whitman about the hereditary curse\n         that hung over his household: two aunts, his father, and a\n         sister, one after the other, had succumbed to insanity and had\n         either died or had to be removed from home. His own mind was\n         as clear and acute as possible, he insisted, and the family\n         curse appeared unlikely to fall upon him if his worldly\n         affairs jogged along composedly, but the knowledge of the\n         taint in his blood was a terrible thing to him. Perhaps there\n         is enough here to explain why Ingram's disposition early\n         became choleric, why he never married, and why he suffered all\n         of his life from recurring sicknesses, real or imaginary.","By 1870 there was a growing international interest in Poe's\n         genius. A new generation had grown up to be fascinated by his\n         tales and poems, and the older generations had in a measure\n         forgotten the unpleasant stories connected with Poe's life. A\n         minority group of Poe's friends in \n          America knew that Griswold's Memoir had\n         been motivated by jealousy and hatred, but no one of them had\n         the information, the literary ability, and the strength\n         necessary to publish an effectively documented denial of\n         Grisold's Memoir and to replace it with an honest biography.\n         These friends of Poe's were widely separated, largely unknown\n         to each other; all had been seriously affected by a decade of\n         war and its aftermath, and all of them were growing old. If\n         Poe's memory was to be vindicated, it was fairly certain that\n         it would have to be done by someone younger, someone who would\n         not personally have known Poe. Not a single one of Poe's close\n         friends who still lived in the l870's had any idea or plan for\n         doing the job himself, but a number of them were eager to help\n         someone else do it.","Such, in brief, was the situation when \n          John Henry Ingram of \n          Stoke Newington determined to prove to the\n         world his theory that \n          Rufus Griswold had been a liar and that \n          Edgar Poe had been shamefully\n         maligned.","The first articles Ingram published in l873 and early l874\n         had little new information in them which would vindicate Poe's\n         reputation; Ingram was of necessity feeling his way, and he\n         used these magazine publications to announce clearly his\n         purpose, before diving into the melee. He intended to refute,\n         step by step, the aspersions cast on Poe's character by\n         Griswold and to publish an edition of Poe's works which would\n         not only be more complete than any hitherto published, but\n         which, through a Memoir as its Preface, would clear Poe's name\n         and present him to the world as the great artist and fine\n         gentleman he really was.","After his first flight into the thin air of creative and\n         imaginative writing, Ingram's muse brought him closer to earth\n         and he really found himself at home in the murky atmosphere of\n         the \n          British Museum. Ingram was a natural\n         researcher. Armed with righteous indignation and the tools of\n         scholarship, he became a crusader enlisted in a holy cause;\n         the peculiar combination within him of a sensitive, poetic\n         soul and a zealot's concentrated energy uniquely fitted him\n         for the challenging job of righting the wrongs he believed had\n         been done to Poe.","Having exhausted his resources at hand, Ingram turned to \n          America in the hope of finding there\n         friends of Poe who still resented the injustice done to him\n         enough to help clear his name. The adroit timing and the\n         felicity of this plan quickly became apparent. It was not\n         difficult for Ingram to communicate his sincere feeling that\n         his work was a crusade against evil, and Poe's friends were\n         delighted with the boyish fervor of this young and already\n         distinguished English scholar who was so unselfishly\n         championing the poet's blighted reputation. Poe had been dead\n         for nearly twenty-five years and many of his friends were\n         hastening to their own graves, but they responded immediately\n         to Ingram's letters and joined in a tireless search for\n         recollections of Poe's literary and personal activities,\n         sending letters Poe had written to them, manuscripts, books,\n         and even personal keepsakes Poe had given to them. \n          Sarah Helen Whitman, excited over the\n         prospect of Ingram's writing an authoritative biography of\n         Poe, wrote out for him everything she could remember of her\n         personal meetings with Poe, sent him manuscripts, hundreds of\n         newsclippings, magazine articles, copied letters and excerpts\n         from articles, and gave unreservedly from her remarkable store\n         of information about what others had written and said about\n         Poe. \n          Annie Richmond entrusted to Ingram the\n         only copies she had ever made of her precious letters from\n         Poe, and sent him copies of Poe's books that had been found in\n         Poe's trunk after he died. \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent letters\n         and copies of letters from Poe, a miniature of Poe's mother,\n         and at least three manuscript poems Poe had given her. \n          Stella Lewis gave him Poe's manuscript of\n         \"Politian,\" and willed to him the daguerreotype which Poe had\n         given to her in l848. \n          Edward V. Valentine of \n          Richmond, \n          William Hand Browne of \n          Johns Hopkins University, \n          John Neal, Poe's sister Rosalie, the \n          Poe family in \n          Baltimore, including \n          Neilson Poe and his daughter Amelia, and\n         many, many others contributed to Ingram's surprisingly large\n         store of information about Poe. And when \n          William Fearing Gill and \n          Eugene L. Didier came to many of these\n         same persons asking for help on their biographies of Poe,\n         these correspondents showed a surprising disposition to\n         withhold everything for Ingram and to betray to him the\n         activities of his American rivals. Later when violent personal\n         and literary quarrels broke out between Ingram and these\n         American biographers of Poe, Ingram's epistolary friends\n         encouraged him in private correspondence and defended him\n         vigorously in the public press. Poe's friends had become\n         Ingram's partisans. A steadily rising stream of books,\n         letters, manuscripts, pictures, and newsclippings passed from \n          America to \n          England, with a few of them, but very\n         few, finding their way back again. The aggregate of Ingram's\n         correspondence on Poe matters is staggering when one realizes\n         that he carried it on single-handedly, and published during\n         these years sixteen books on other subjects while holding an\n         everyday job at the General Post Office.","From the two bound volumes of the Broadway Journal that\n         Mrs. Whitman sent, Ingram was able to make a number of\n         important additions to the cannon of Poe's writings when he\n         published his edition of Poe's works. Poe had given these\n         volumes, covering his editorship of the Journal, to Mrs.\n         Whitman in l848, and had gone through them and initialed with\n         \"P\" almost everything he had written. Mrs. Whitman had first\n         offered to lend these volumes to Ingram, but then, feeling the\n         time of her death drawing near, she decided to give them to\n         him. Accordingly, on April 2, 1874, she mailed them with the\n         injunction that they be returned to her \"at the opening of the\n         seventh seal.\"","In the Preface of his l880 two-volume biography of Poe, \n          John Ingram bade farewell \"to what has\n         engrossed so much of my life and labour.\" He was convinced\n         that he had garnered almost all of the genuine Poe documents\n         there were and that his accurate and complete biography had\n         dealt conclusively with everything of importance concerning\n         Poe. His work was finished, he sincerely thought.","But Ingram was not through with Poe. He should have\n         understood himself and the reputation he had acquired as a Poe\n         scholar well enough to know that he could not be through. The\n         popularity of his edition had created a large market for Poe's\n         writings and his biography had stirred up so much controversy,\n         particularly in \n          America, that he had rather to increase\n         sharply his activities, for he was quickly challenged about\n         statements in his published works. Quick to resent\n         encroachment on what he considered his private preserves, he\n         rapidly found himself at odds with a number of persons who had\n         begun writing on Poe, for he could detect in their\n         publications borrowings from his own, borrowings made more\n         often than not without acknowledgment.","Ingram could not copyright facts, and he grew steadily more\n         embittered as he saw the fruits of his research become public\n         property. A new era of investigation into Poe's writings and\n         life was beginning in \n          America, an era brought about principally\n         by Ingram's controversial personality and by the tone of his\n         published writings about Poe. Competent scholars were entering\n         the field to contest Ingram's claims of being the leading Poe\n         authority, and these new American writers were rapidly making\n         the early efforts of W. F. Gill and Eugene Didier appear\n         puerile indeed. \n          George W. Woodberry, \n          Edmund C. Stedman, and \n          R. H. Stoddard were formidable new\n         biographers and suitors of Poe, and Ingram had not as yet, in\n         the 1880's, taken their measure. Far from being finished with\n         his work, he was really only beginning. During the next\n         thirty-five years he struck back angrily through the columns\n         of important newspapers and journals --to which his reputation\n         as a Poe scholar gave him easy access --at other writers who,\n         as he saw it, had stolen his Poe materials or who had altered\n         the Poe image he had tried so hard to create. When reviewing\n         new editions and biographies of Poe, Ingram tried to demolish\n         them with a wit as rapier-like as was Poe's; unfortunately for\n         him, his witty thrusts resembled broad-ax blows. Where Poe had\n         been original and cruel, Ingram was simply sarcastic and\n         repetitious. But through their reviews Ingram and Poe did\n         achieve the same result: they both made enduring, deadly,\n         vociferous enemies.","In 1884 Ingram edited a de luxe four-volume edition of\n         Tales and Poems of \n          Edgar Allan Poe for English publication,\n         and for the \n          Tauchnitz Press in \n          Leipzig he edited separate volumes of\n         Poe's Tales and Poems; in 1885 he published a volume on Poe's\n         \"The Raven\"; in 1886 he prepared a one-volume reprint of the\n         two-volume biography of Poe he had issued in 1880; and in 1888\n         he brought out the first variorum edition of Poe's poems. With\n         these publications Ingram was represented on the literary\n         market by one edition or another which covered every phase of\n         Poe's activities. Thus, finally, was completed the body of his\n         important work on Poe.","In still another sense \n          John Ingram's work on Poe was finished.\n         His whole method of investigation had been based on personal\n         correspondence with Poe's friends, and year by year the circle\n         had grown smaller until, in 1888, only \n          Annie Richmond was left. His early, happy\n         inspiration of searching out Poe's friends had yielded rich\n         results. Now those persons were silent, but their memories,\n         their letters, and their precious papers had been given into\n         Ingram's keeping; and he had used most of these things in\n         publishing in every area of Poe scholarship, until, at the\n         close of 1888, there was literally nothing left for him to do.\n         But his collection remained and was the envy of Poe scholars\n         everywhere.","John Ingram was retired with a pension\n         from the Civil Service in 1903, after thirty-five years in the\n         General Post Office. He continued living in \n          London with his only remaining sister,\n         Laura, writing articles, caustically reviewing new books about\n         Poe and new editions of Poe's works, and in 1909 Ingram led\n         the English celebration of Poe's centenary, bringing out still\n         another edition of Poe's poems and furnishing to the London\n         Bookman practically all of the materials used in its \n          Edgar Allan Poe Centenary Number. In these\n         years of retirement Ingram began putting into final form his\n         definitive biography of Poe. He felt he could use everything\n         in his files, now that all of the people who had sent\n         materials to him were dead, to achieve the distinction he\n         wanted more than anything else --to be remembered by the world\n         as the one authentic and complete biographer of Edgar Poe. In\n         1912 Ingram moved his household from \n          London to \n          Brighton. There for a few years he\n         enjoyed the sea-bathing he loved so well, and there he died on\n         February 12, 1916. His passing went unnoticed. His last\n         sickness had evidently not been considered terminal and his\n         death must have come unexpectedly, for he left no clear-cut\n         arrangements for disposing of his affairs or for the huge\n         collection of Poe materials, the pride of his life. It is\n         strange that he had not long before made definite provision\n         for his Poe collection, for it constituted his greatest claim\n         to personal and literary fame, and \n          John Ingram was a man mindful of history's\n         judgment. Through the years, it is true, he had sold almost\n         all of his original Poe letters and some of the more important\n         items given him by Poe's friends, but he had kept accurate\n         copies of everything he had sold. Ingram had justified his\n         actions by insisting he had sacrificed his own fortune and\n         health in trying to clear Poe's name and if his work was to\n         continue the sales were necessary to provide money for it.\n         Even though these original letters and manuscripts were no\n         longer part of his collection, the things that remained were\n         very important, and \n          John Ingram knew it. Nothing else he had\n         published had brought his name before the world as had his\n         publications on Poe and the reputation he had gained as a\n         collector of Poe materials.","III","Shortly after John Ingram's death, Miss \n          Laura Ingram caused something of a stir in\n         the scholarly worlds of \n          England and \n          America by advertising for sale her\n         brother's entire library. Although \n          John Ingram had become an anachronism, his\n         out-dated biographical methods having long been superseded by\n         the careful, painstaking, scholarly practices of Professors \n          James A. Harrison and \n          Killis Campbell, the number of important\n         \"first\" Poe publications Ingram had scored was still green in\n         the memories of all concerned. Poe scholars knew that in his\n         declining years Ingram had lost his knack of ferreting out new\n         and important facts about Poe, but they also knew that shortly\n         before his death Ingram had completed a new biography of Poe.\n         While they did not expect that manuscript to be among the\n         papers offered for sale, there was every reason to believe the\n         materials from which he had written it would be. More\n         important than this, scholars everywhere wanted to see those\n         original manuscripts and letters by means of which Ingram had\n         forty years before made so many important contributions to Poe\n         biography.","Word of the proposed sale reached the \n          University of Virginia early in the summer\n         of 1916. Librarian \n          John S. Patton promptly sent an inquiry to\n         Ingram's heirs, through the American Consul in \n          London, asking what books and papers\n         about Poe were to be sold. Miss \n          Laura Ingram as promptly answered his\n         inquiry and enclosed a partial list of the Poe books, letters,\n         and papers she wished to sell, asking l50 pounds sterling for\n         the lot. Patton felt this too inclusive a basis on which to\n         buy, so he countered with a proposition that Miss Ingram send\n         the entire collection to \n          Virginia for examination and evaluation;\n         for an option to buy any or all of the collection the\n         University would pay shipping expenses and insurance from \n          England to \n          America, and back again, if need be.\n         Patton's interest was principally in the letters and portraits\n         in the collection; the University, he wrote, not altogether\n         accurately, already had most of the books on Poe that Miss\n         Ingram had listed.","Miss Ingram agreed to Patton's proposal but delayed the\n         shipment because there was a great risk of losing the\n         collection. \n          England was at war with \n          Germany and enemy submarines had begun\n         taking a heavy toll of English merchant shipping. After a few\n         months, when the immediacies of war occupied both Miss Ingram\n         and the University officials, correspondence about the Poe\n         papers was dropped.","In 1919, \n          James Southall Wilson, a young Professor\n         of English from \n          William and Mary came to join the \n          University of Virginia faculty. A seminar\n         course on Poe's works was being organized for the first time\n         at the University and Dr. Wilson was scheduled to teach it.\n         Although he was not at the time either a Poe specialist or a\n         specialist in American literature Dr. Wilson had, however,\n         long been keenly interested in Poe's writings. Shortly after\n         his arrival, \n          John Patton mentioned to him in casual\n         conversation that he had a partial list of \n          John Ingram's Poe Collection which had\n         been for sale some years before. When Dr. Wilson saw the list\n         his imagination quickly became fired with the possibilities of\n         what the whole collection might be; so he maneuvered hastily,\n         to enlist President \n          Edwin A. Alderman's support, gathered\n         accumulated Library funds, and reopened the correspondence\n         with Miss Ingram about her brother's papers.","Miss Ingram's health had been seriously affected by her\n         brother's death and by the privations of the war; once the\n         fighting was over she had begun making hurried efforts to\n         dispose of the Poe papers to any acceptable university or\n         library authorities. She had wanted them to go to the \n          University of Virginia for safekeeping,\n         since her brother had paid marked attention to Poe's alma\n         mater, but a number of years had passed without further word\n         from \n          Charlottesville. Fearfully believing her\n         own death to be at hand, she had seized an opportunity to sell\n         the papers to the \n          University of Texas.","Professor \n          Killis Campbell, an editor of Poe's poems\n         and himself a Virginian, wrote Miss Ingram, as Chairman of the\n          Department of English at the University of\n         Texas, that he would consider buying her Poe papers\n         only after the \n          University of Virginia had definitely\n         refused their purchase.","Still another possible solution to Miss Ingram's problem\n         then presented itself: a Harvard Professor, vacationing in\n         England, came to \n          Brighton to examine the Poe collection,\n         with the idea of buying it for his university.","At this point Miss Ingram received Dr. Wilson's renewed\n         request to ship the papers on approval to \n          Virginia. She did not want this\n         indefiniteness. Getting the papers packed and shipped,\n         furthermore, would be a difficult and confusing job, for the\n         Poe collection had somehow become mixed with the remnants of \n          John Ingram's once enviable collections\n         of materials about \n          Christopher Marlowe, Chatterton, \n          Oliver Madox-Brown, and \n          Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sudden\n         interest in the Poe papers on the part of an English purchaser\n         offered her a way out. She stopped short and awaited an offer\n         from any one of the prospective buyers who would relieve her\n         of the trouble of packing and shipping the papers. A quick\n         acceptance of her terms by the English agent, the Harvard\n         professor, or by the \n          University of Texas would have changed the\n         fate of the Poe papers.","The \n          University of Virginia's correspondence\n         about the papers had not involved an agent, since it was begun\n         and ended by personal letters between \n          John Patton, Dr. Wilson, and Miss Ingram.\n         Yet, some knowledge of the prospective return of \n          John Ingram's Poe papers to \n          America reached numerous scholars,\n         authors, teachers, and booksellers, for they began sending\n         requests to the \n          University of Virginia for permission to\n         examine and use or to purchase portions of the collection. The\n         first word the University itself had that they were to receive\n         the Poe Collection came from \n          J. H. Whitty, \n          Richmond book collector and editor of\n         Poe's poems, who wrote \n          John Patton on September 23, 1921, saying\n         the papers were even then enroute from \n          England to the University. This\n         information, Whitty wrote in sly confidence, he had picked up\n         through the bookseller's \"grapevine.\"","In mid-October, 192l, the collection arrived in the \n          United States aboard the SS Northwestern\n         Miller, which docked at \n          Philadelphia. The shipment, consigned by \n          John Patton as \"settler's effects,\" was\n         passed through Customs free of duty. But Patton, who had not\n         been in \n          England for a decade, resolutely refused\n         to sign an affidavit declaring the boxes contained his\n         household goods; consequently, two weeks passed before\n         official confusion was cleared up and the shipment\n         released.","The two great packing cases actually reached the University\n         in the first week of November and were isolated in a small\n         room in the basement of the Rotunda to await examination by\n         Dr. Wilson in whatever time he could spare from his teaching\n         duties.","Dr. Wilson found his job long and tiring, but always\n         interesting, and at times very exciting. \n          John Ingram's Poe collection was bulky,\n         varied and rich.","IV","Perhaps the prize single article in the Poe Collection was\n         the original \"Stella\" daguerreotype of Poe --the one Poe had\n         given to Mrs. Lewis in l848, which she in turn willed to \n          John Ingram in l880. And among the\n         hundreds of letters from Ingram's correspondents, perhaps none\n         were more interesting to Dr. Wilson, nor to Poe students\n         later, than those from \n          Sarah Helen Whitman. This strange and\n         charming woman had cherished for twenty-five years the image\n         of herself as his one great love, after her brief engagement\n         of three months to Poe in l848, and she had written to \n          John Ingram the fullest account there is\n         of their personal relationships. Her ninety-eight letters to\n         Ingram narrowly escaped being destroyed by \n          Laura Ingram, who felt, for reasons best\n         known to herself, Mrs. Whitman's letters were unfit to be in\n         her brother's collection. Fortunately, Miss Ingram decided to\n         include the letters in the shipment and let the Virginia\n         authorities decide whether or not they should be\n         destroyed.","Ingram's letters to \n          Annie Richmond had also evoked full and\n         generous replies. She placed her whole trust in Ingram and\n         wanted him to understand, as she felt sure no mortal except\n         herself had understood, the purity and nobility of Poe's mind\n         and spirit. The copies she made of Poe's letters to herself\n         for \n          John Ingram, found in this collection,\n         are the only ones in existence; the originals have\n         disappeared.","Dr. Wilson also found in this collection many letters from \n          Marie Louise Shew Houghton, who had\n         nursed \n          Virginia Poe during her last sickness at \n          Fordham and had watched over Poe as he\n         suffered a long and violent attack after Virginia's death.\n         Mrs. Houghton had sent to Ingram either the originals or\n         copies of all the manuscripts and letters she had received\n         from Poe, in addition to a sometimes confusing but invaluable\n         account of Poe's family life.","Letters from these three ladies made up the largest group\n         that Ingram had received, but Dr. Wilson found many additional\n         letters and items of importance. There was the original\n         drawing of Poe that \n          Edouard Manet had made and presented to \n          Stephane Mallarme, who had in turn given\n         it to \n          John Ingram ; a pen drawing of \n          Marie Louise Shew, made by an unknown\n         hand; letters from \n          Rosalie Poe, begging, shortly before she\n         died, for Ingram's financial help; a penciled letter from Poe\n         himself to \n          Stella Lewis written on the back of her\n         manuscript poem \"The Prisoner of Perote\"; letters and\n         documents from \n          Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond\n         sculptor who first persuaded \n          Elmira Royster Shelton to relate for\n         Ingram her early and late memories of Poe; letters from Sir \n          Arthur Conan Doyle, \n          John Neal, \n          Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and many other\n         letters Dr. Wilson knew to be without parallel in any\n         collection of Poe papers.","Miss Ingram had not included in the shipment \"a good many\"\n         letters from Miss \n          Amelia FitzGerald Poe, since they \"threw\n         too little fresh light on her nephew's life to be of an\n         interest,\" nor had she included old copies of the Southern\n         Literary Messenger and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, feeling\n         certain the University would already have them. \n          Amelia Poe was the daughter of \n          Neilson Poe, who had buried Edgar in \n          Baltimore in l849, and the custodian of\n         many letters from Poe, Mrs. Clemm, Mrs. Whitman, and \n          Annie Richmond ; she had corresponded with\n         Ingram over a period of twenty years and was important enough\n         to him to receive the dedication of his last biography of Poe.\n         These letters and magazines were requested from Miss Ingram\n         and in time they were received and restored to the\n         collection.","After a thorough examination of the collection, Dr. Wilson\n         decided it was worth the price asked. In l916 the price had\n         been 150 pounds; in 1922 it was 200 pounds. For the entire\n         collection, \n          John Patton offered 181 pounds, 14\n         shillings ($800), on March 24, 1922.","Miss Ingram gladly accepted the money and she wrote to the\n         officials of the University how pleased she was that what she\n         believed to be her dead brother's wish had been carried out:\n         his Poe collection was at home in \n          America, and in \n          Virginia, where she was sure he would\n         have wanted it to be. And she continued her interest in the\n         University, quite often sending cordial letters accompanied by\n         packages of books, pictures, and letters which she had come\n         across and thought belonged with her brother's Poe collection.\n         In 1933, when once again Miss Ingram thought her death was\n         near, she sent to the University, as a gift, John Ingram's\n         manuscript, \"The True Story of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. \" This manuscript had\n         been in a publisher's hands when Ingram died, but printing was\n         delayed until the war should be over. Before that time came,\n         however, the publisher had himself died, and \n          Laura Ingram had tried without success to\n         place it with other publishers. Its presence in the house made\n         her uncomfortable. Would the University accept it and deal\n         with it as they saw fit?","The whole tone of this manuscript convinces the reader that\n          John Ingram considered this last\n         biography, his farewell to Poe scholarship, to be a volume\n         that would triumphantly answer his critics, and would be the\n         foundation-stone upon which he would be able to stand forever\n         as the uncontestable arbiter of all things concerning Poe. In\n         this work he resurveyed his whole knowledge and experience and\n         fearlessly handed down his dicta on all controversial Poe\n         questions. But unfortunately his spleen overrode his scholarly\n         judgment. His virulence against other Poe biographers,\n         especially the Americans whom he accused of fraudulently using\n         his materials, succeeded in clouding Ingram's own vision and\n         writing, and succeeds in destroying for his present day reader\n         the confidence necessary in an author's balanced judgment, if\n         he is to accept, even partially, the arbitrary rulings. This\n         manuscript is not, as Ingram thought it would be, the last\n         word on Poe. It is unrelentingly bitter against Poe's\n         detractors and Ingram's personal rivals, and it seeks, even\n         more than did Ingram's other writings on Poe, to whitewash its\n         subject completely. Ingram's perspective seems to have\n         deserted him as he wrote this manuscript, and he had little\n         left except futile anger.","V","The addition of the manuscript life of Poe rounded out the\n         collection of Poe papers that once had belonged to \n          John Ingram, now in the possession of the\n          University of Virginia.","One can safely say that had it not been for \n          John Ingram's skill and energy, together\n         with the peculiarities of his temperament, we should not now\n         have many of these unusual and dependable accounts of Poe's\n         activities and personality. By studying Ingram's papers it is\n         possible to trace him through a maze of editing and publishing\n         and to watch him, step by step, slowly amass his great fund of\n         information about Poe. One can see him make mistakes and\n         achieve triumphs as he accepts, rejects, and fuses information\n         to be included in his numerous publications on Poe. Then, too,\n         it is still possible to catch fresh glimpses of Poe himself in\n         this collection, for Ingram did not publish all of the\n         memories of Poe set down in the letters he received. Some of\n         these recollections Ingram deliberately shielded from public\n         view, but they are no more apocryphal than many of the\n         recollections he chose to believe and to publish; some of the\n         records Ingram received he suppressed from delicacy alone.","A number of scholarly papers, theses, and doctoral\n         dissertations have been based on this collection of Poe\n         papers, making almost all the more important items and\n         clusters of items more readily available to other scholars.\n         The complete collection has made possible another kind of\n         study, by an examination of Ingram's biographies and editions\n         of Poe, in conjunction with the rough materials from which he\n         shaped them, it has been possible to make a just evaluation of\n         Ingram's place among Poe biographers and editors and to\n         demonstrate exactly what and how many important contributions\n         he made to the peculiarly difficult field of Poe scholarship.\n         Finally, and by no means least important, is the fact that,\n         since Ingram's work on Poe covered nearly his whole life span,\n         it has been possible for the first time to trace in the great\n         mass of his papers a thread of the biography of this\n         nineteenth-century professional editor and biographer to whom\n         the writer of every signifcant work about Poe since 1874 has\n         been directly and heavily indebted."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection, Accession #38-135,\n            Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,\n            Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eA calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSecond Edition by John E. Reilly\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eTo the Memory of John Carl Miller\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship.\u003c/title\u003e Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJohn Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia.\u003c/title\u003e This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBuilding Poe Biography,\u003c/title\u003e was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ePoe's Helen Remembers,\u003c/title\u003e appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eCount Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBaltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiven to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 54.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 56-57.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 73-75.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 81-82\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 83-85.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 150-151.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 163-166.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 1: 299-300.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe True Story of Edgar Allan Poe,\u003c/title\u003e p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 315.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 318.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eAutograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors,\u003c/title\u003e 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"doublequote\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Literati of New York City.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 349-350.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 350-351.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 391-398.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 409-411.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 413-414.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 441.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWrites of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStill in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText printed in Letters 2: 461-462.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRedfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026amp; \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026amp; they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026amp; saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcademy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDavidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal;\u003c/title\u003e\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHistory of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhen \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCould Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePowell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOfficial from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDonohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe did not die drunk, as the world believes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eKey has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMorison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eResponds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAs a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJohn Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026amp; amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAt Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBoth Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSince receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026amp; character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOnly the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAll that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAlthough often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIf Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNeither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLocker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePeterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJudge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026amp;\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Poe family is mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGarnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eI. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eValentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 397.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEuget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRoden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopied from the Curio, January-February 1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBeecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThat stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eD'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDoes Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNo picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOrtensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eConan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eVallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThere is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eShe sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOn 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMiss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBecause the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePhotograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eModelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eForwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem has been made into a booklet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIntroduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical sketch of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNew York Evening Mirror.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn adverse review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEditor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSenator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eText of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFrom Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJ. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWillis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCopy signed by Mrs. Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWriter furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSame as Item 560.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIt was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eOne installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eClarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDespite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFunds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eP. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTwo sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMarvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAddressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProgram of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sketch of Poe's life and work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe and of the monument.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSatirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. A biographical-critical essay.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTen parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal.\u003c/title\u003e See Item 616.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCriticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrowne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePortion of an article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThese lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical sketch.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRefuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParagraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBriggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTakes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA caustic review of the 4th edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDenies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLong, favorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn office boy in the offices of the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal\u003c/title\u003e thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe edition will appear in three volumes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGeorge denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eChallenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated heavily by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThough generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExtract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCommendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical survey.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eJoint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGiving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePlans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAsks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable comments.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEllis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRaises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSuggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eExcerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAttributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMajor \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical study.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eParodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePresentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStory of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReport that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePublished by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eGenerally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRepeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBrief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDefensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLetters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eStriking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMinor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMenchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eItem anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026amp; Company.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCritical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eControversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eScholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eQuotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTranslation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCalls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHighly laudatory.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWhitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAnnotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReplying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAcrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eInfers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eTyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFeature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCaustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFather Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAn enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAmong forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAfter citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eNotice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eList of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. Centennial article.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThis miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIllustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFirst article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German. On the Poe centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn German.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn Italian.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCentennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIncludes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eBiographical-critical.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLaudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eComments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHeavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIngram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWas it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccount of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReview of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eMr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eFavorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePrints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCampbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBurton's Gentleman's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraham's Magazine,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWeekly Mirror,\u003c/title\u003e the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBroadway Journal,\u003c/title\u003e\n                  and the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eDemocratic Review.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eHaving found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWith two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eThe \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eProfessor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDidier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePolitely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSurveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDiscoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDeclares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eSummary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eObituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003ePoe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eDr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eA parody of \"The Raven.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eIn his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArticle reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eReviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eRecalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003e\n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country Club.\u003c/p\u003e\n          "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["A calendar and index of letters and other manuscripts,\n         photographs, printed matter, and biographical source materials\n         concerning \n          Edgar Allan Poe assembled by \n          John Henry Ingram, with prefatory essay\n         by \n          John Carl Miller on Ingram as a Poe editor\n         and biographer and as a collector of Poe materials.","Second Edition by John E. Reilly","To the Memory of John Carl Miller","Introduction:","In 1922 the \n          University of Virginia paid the heirs of \n          John Henry Ingram the munificent sum of\n         $800 for the materials Ingram had assembled for his work as\n         biographer, editor, and stalwart (i.e., feisty) champion of \n          Edgar Allan Poe. What the University\n         acquired is an unparalleled collection of letters and other\n         manuscripts, of photographs and daguerreotypes, and of\n         newspaper clippings and various other printed materials\n         totaling altogether more than a thousand items. Although the\n         University made the Collection available to serious students\n         of Poe, the contents remained uncatalogued at the \n          Alderman Library until, in the late\n         1940's, \n          John Carl Miller, then a graduate\n         student, undertook the chore of sorting and classifying the\n         mass of material. As it happened, the chore proved to be even\n         more than a labor of love: it marked for Miller the beginning\n         of a life-long interest both in Ingram and in the materials\n         Ingram had compiled. The first fruit of Miller's interest was\n         his 1954 doctoral dissertation, Poe's English Biographer,\n          John Henry Ingram : A Biographical Account\n         and a Study of His Contributions to Poe Scholarship. Six\n         years later the University published the first edition of\n         Professor Miller's John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University\n            of Virginia. This little book was a \"calendar\" or chronological\n         checklist of the Collection providing a brief description of\n         the content of each item. Professor Miller prefaced the\n         calendar with his essay on Ingram as \"Editor, Biographer, and\n         Collector of Poe Materials\" and furnished access to the\n         calendar through an index. In the mid-1960's Professor Miller\n         served as an advisor to the University's project of making the\n         entire Collection available on nine reels of microfilm. At the\n         same time, however, Professor Miller was laying his own plans\n         to make \"the more important primary source materials\" used by\n         Ingram even more available in a multi-volume annotated\n         edition. The first of these volumes, Building Poe Biography, was published by Louisiana State University Press\n         in 1977, and the second volume, Poe's Helen Remembers, appeared two years later from the \n          University Press of Virginia. In\n         declining health for a number of years, Professor Miller died\n         in October 1979, before any other volumes could be\n         prepared.","At the time of his death, Professor Miller was at work not\n         only on his annotated edition of materials in the Collection\n         but also on the second edition of the calendar published by\n         the \n          University of Virginia almost two decades\n         earlier. It is his work on the second edition of the calendar\n         that the present volume carries to its conclusion.","The format of the entries in the calendar is similarly\n         unchanged: two paragraphs are devoted to each item, the first\n         a bibliographical (if that word can be extended to included\n         manuscripts) description of the item and the second paragraph\n         a brief account of its content.","Count Poe, a Polish nobleman, has induced Scottish\n                  emigrants to settle a colony on his estates.","Baltimoreans understood that Poe wrote this in \n                   Mary A. Hand's album.","Official copy from \n                   U.S. War Department made in\n                  1875.","Official copy from \n                   U. S. War Department made in\n                  1874.","Given to Ingram by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis between 1875 and\n                  1880.","Text printed in Letters 1: 54.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56.","Text printed in Letters 1: 56-57.","Text printed in Letters 1: 73-75.","Text printed in Letters 1: 81-82","Text printed in Letters 1: 83-85.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  115-117.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  120.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  124-125.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  125-126.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  127-128.","Enclosed in Item 321. Text printed in Letters, 1:\n                  129-133.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  137-139.","Text printed in Letters 1: 150-151.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  151-153.","Text printed in Letters 1: 163-166.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  175-177.","Enclosed in Item 359. Text printed in Letters 1:\n                  183-184.","Text printed in Letters 1: 299-300.","After copying these verses from Ide's holograph,\n                  Poe printed them in the \n                  Broadway Journal on 13 September\n                  1845, p. 145. See \n                  The True Story of Edgar Allan Poe, p.\n                  825, for Ingram's discussion of this.","Text printed in Letters 2: 315.","Text printed in Letters 2: 318.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  331-334.","When a facsimile of this extract in Poe's hand had\n                  appeared in \n                   John P. Kennedy's Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, 1864, the drama was credited to Poe, but he had only copied a portion of\n                  it to use in his discussion of Mrs. Osgood's work in\n                  The Literati of New York City.","Text printed in Letters 2: 340. \n                   E. Dora Houghton sent the\n                  original of this letter to Ingram in 1875, and he\n                  reproduced it in facsimile in his 1880 Life of Poe 2:\n                  107. [See Item 194.]","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  343-344.","Mrs. Clemm expresses her appreciation for\n                  medicines and wines Mrs. Houghton had sent shortly\n                  before Virginia's death and during Edgar's\n                  sickness.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  348-349.","Text printed in Letters 2: 349-350.","Text printed in Letters 2: 350-351.","Mrs. Nichols sent this as a valentine to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), and Poe copied it in her autograph book.\n                  See Item 213.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  354-357.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  360-362.","Enclosed in Item 210. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original MS. to Ingram in 1875.","Enclosed in Item 211. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  369-371.","Copy reached Ingram through \n                   Annie Richmond. [See Item 318.]\n                  In a note appended, presumably to Poe, Mrs. Locke\n                  asks that receipt of this MS. be acknowledged\n                  immediately.","Text printed in Letters 2: 382-391. In a note\n                  appended to this copy, Mrs. Whitman asks Ingram to\n                  hold this letter sacred for Poe and for herself. She\n                  knows he will not say of it, as did \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard,\n                  \"Curious, very curious, indeed.\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 391-398.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400.","Text printed in Letters 2: 400-404. \"This must be\n                  burnt,\" written by Ingram on this copy.","Text printed in Letters 2: 404, where variants are\n                  noted.","Text printed in Letters 2: 406-409. Mrs. Whitman\n                  sent this fragment for Ingram's use in his 1874-75\n                  edition of Poe's works. Facsimile faces p. lxvi of\n                  vol. I.","Text printed in Letters 2: 409-411.","Mrs. Clemm doubts the wisdom of Poe's marrying \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and thanks\n                  Annie for inducing him to make to her the promise\n                  which Mrs. Clemm is sure he will die before he\n                  breaks. Mrs. Richmond's note on margin: \"It is the\n                  letter containing this promise she [Mrs. Clemm]\n                  borrowed and never returned!\"","Text printed in Letters 2: 411-412. At \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's request,\n                  Poe wrote this letter to Pabodie signing it with his\n                  full name, since Pabodie wanted an autograph he could\n                  \"show.\" Pabodie willed it to Mrs. Whitman in 1870;\n                  sometime later she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who lent it back\n                  to her for Ingram's use in 1874. Ingram had this\n                  facsimile made and reproduced it in his \"Memoir\" in\n                  his edition of Poe's works, Vol. 1, between pp. lxxvi\n                  and lxxvii.","Text printed in Letters 2: 413-414.","Enclosed in Item 310. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  420-422. See Item 310.","Text printed in Letters 2: 429-432. In an appended\n                  note, Mrs. Richmond explains to Ingram on 27\n                  September 1876 Mr. Richmond's repudiation of the\n                  accusations made against Poe by the \n                   Locke family.","Text printed in Letters 2: 441.","Enclosed in Item 340. Text printed in Letters 2:\n                  449-450.","Tells of Poe's derangement (in \n                   Philadelphia ) and of his fancied\n                  pursuit by the police. Poe assured her that he never\n                  did anything disgraceful while deranged.","Writes of her extreme anxiety over Poe's long\n                  absence and silence.","Still in despair over Poe's long silence, Mrs.\n                  Clemm wants to borrow money from Mr. Richmond so that\n                  she can go in search of Poe.","Mrs. Clemm has received Mr. Richmond's letter with\n                  $5 enclosed. Tells of having received a letter from\n                  Poe in \n                   Richmond and of the temperance\n                  pledge he enclosed, which she now sends to Mrs.\n                  Richmond.","Text printed in Letters 2: 461-462.","Enclosed in Item 360. Text printed in \n                   A. H. Quinn's Edgar Allan Poe,\n                  p. 638.","Mrs. Clemm mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe, Sr.","Enclosed in Item 428. Mrs. Whitman expresses her\n                  sympathy for Mrs. Clemm's sorrow over Poe's\n                  death.","Mrs. Clemm asks that Poe's trunk be forwarded to\n                  her in Lowell and insists that her right to Poe's\n                  possessions as well as the profits from his books are\n                  greater than are \n                   Rosalie Poe's. Remarks that\n                  Longfellow has paid her a sympathetic visit.","Annie Richmond mailed this\n                  facsimile to Ingram on 14 January 1877. Poe had given\n                  the original to her, as the poem was printed in the\n                  Flag of Our Union and in the Home Journal.","Poe incorporated these lines into his poem \"A\n                  Dream Within a Dream\" and gave the original MS. to \n                   Annie Richmond.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth's last letter to Poe\n                  was forwarded to Mrs. Clemm from Richmond after his\n                  death. Says she has not received one dollar from the\n                  sales of Poe's works; asks Eveleth to sell a few sets\n                  of Griswold's edition for her; begs him to disregard\n                  all the evil things said about Poe. If Eveleth writes\n                  to her, she will tell him all about Poe. Graham's for\n                  March has the truth about him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm is grateful and\n                  glad that Eveleth will try to sell some sets of Poe's\n                  works for her and that he does not believe all that\n                  he has heard against Poe. Will write that long letter\n                  promised.","Enclosed in Item 340. Unable at present to write\n                  that long letter about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Clemm sends third\n                  volume of Poe's works. Says \n                   George R. Graham wrote her that\n                  he had a host of noble souls ready to refute the base\n                  exaggerations and vile misrepresentations \n                   Rufus Griswold has made against\n                  Poe. Admits there were times Poe was not conscious of\n                  what he wrote. Griswold has taken advantage of\n                  this.","Mentions \n                   Jane E. Locke, the \n                   Stanard family, General \n                   David Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Latrobe denies Griswold's\n                  statement that Poe won the Saturday Visiter prize\n                  only because his handwriting writing was legible.\n                  Describes the difficulty the Committee had in\n                  choosing a winning story from the rich contents of\n                  the \"Tales of the Folio Club.\" When he met Poe after\n                  the prize was awarded, Latrobe was impressed by his\n                  eloquence and accuracy of minute detail in describing\n                  an imaginary voyage to the moon.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Shelton still has a\n                  deep interest in Poe and the deepest respect for his\n                  memory. Believes him to have been misrepresented, but\n                  begs to be excused from communicating anything that\n                  would bring her before the public in any form\n                  whatever. Intends, when opportunity offers, to render\n                  some assistance to Mrs. Clemm.","Mrs. Richmond laments the cruel suffering she has\n                  endured as a result of sharing her secrets and\n                  confidences with Mrs. Clemm.","Enclosed in Item 340. Kennedy agrees with\n                  Latrobe's statement about the manner in which the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize was awarded to Poe.\n                  Lost sight of Poe after he left the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger. Kennedy heard stories that Poe was given\n                  to drink and dissipation; \n                   Thomas W. White told him that Poe\n                  could not be relied upon for work; and \n                   William E. Burton said the\n                  same.","Redfield forwards to her a Bible and a prayer book\n                  which cost $7. Asks if Mrs. Clemm has received\n                  copyright pay for English, French, and German\n                  editions of Poe's works.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis says Mrs. Clemm\n                  has been a member of her household for several\n                  months, that she knew much of Poe and that in her\n                  presence he was always the refined gentleman,\n                  scholar, and poet. Knows Griswold, too, and does not\n                  think he has consumption. Asks about \n                   John Neal's proposed critical\n                  survey of American literature. Denies that her name\n                  is Sarah Anna,although it was mistakenly printed so;\n                  it is Stella Anna, or Estelle Anna. Intends to place\n                  the remains of Poe and \n                   Virginia Poe in Greenwood\n                  Cemetery; this much done, their literary friends will\n                  probably erect a monument over their remains.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis does not believe\n                  that Poe was a drunkard or that he could have been a\n                  vulgar man, under any circumstances, but does not\n                  doubt that despair did sometimes drag him to the very\n                  verge of insanity. Poe dined with her at 3 p.m. and\n                  left at 5 p.m. for \n                   Richmond on 29 June 1849. She\n                  thinks she should see both Neal and Eveleth before\n                  they publish anything about Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Miss Lynch's relations with\n                  Poe were superficial rather than intimate; in\n                  consequence of a wide difference between them over\n                  his treatment of another lady, saw very little of him\n                  the last two or three years of his life. Never saw\n                  him under the influence of wine.","Enclosed in Item 340. In society Poe had the\n                  bearing and manner of a gentleman: his conversation\n                  was interesting; his manner polite and engaging; he\n                  was elegant in his toilet; he was quiet and\n                  unpretentious, never abstracted or dreamy; and he\n                  would never have attracted attention but for his\n                  strikingly intellectual head and features which bore\n                  the unmistakable character of genius. Not intimate\n                  with Poe and not under the influence he exercised\n                  over many.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Lewis saw Poe once or\n                  twice a month from January of 1847 until 29 June\n                  1849. She freely admits having told \n                   Rufus Griswold that Poe had\n                  wanted him to become his editor, in case of his\n                  death, claiming that Poe had asked her to do it, for\n                  he had great confidence in Griswold's editorial\n                  ability. Poe and Griswold had become friends prior to\n                  Poe's departure for the South in June of 1849.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Ellet writes that she\n                  has always understood that Poe, though a man of\n                  genius, was intemperate and subject to attacks of\n                  lunacy and that he was frequently in the asylum.","Davidson writes that he is deeply interested in\n                  efforts to vindicate Poe's character. His own defense\n                  of him was printed in Russell's Magazine (November\n                  1857). Comments on \n                   John R. Thompson's conversation\n                  about Poe with \n                   Robert Browning and \n                   Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\n                  Offers a critical estimate of the truth in \n                   Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has written at the top of the letter a\n                  brief account of her own relationship to Davidson and\n                  of Davidson's relationship to Poe.","Enclosed in Item 138. Poe family history and\n                  biographical notes about \n                   Edgar Poe.","A variant of Item 89 with note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman on the persistence of Poe's love from \n                   Annie Richmond even were he to\n                  marry Mrs. Shelton.","Thinks \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter about Poe seems to \"get at\" much that was\n                  poorly found by others before. Expresses enthusiasm\n                  over performance of singer \n                   Marietta Piccolomini.","In 1826 Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin, Presiding\n                  Officer of the Faculty, directed \n                   William Wertenbaker to draw up\n                  this statement about Poe's scholarship and behavior\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826.\n                  On 22 May 1860, Dr. Maupin appended a note to this\n                  statement attesting to its validity.","Enclosed in Item 184. Biographical facts of\n                  Edgar's early life, description of his home life at\n                  Fordham, his work habits, his devotion to Virginia.\n                  Mrs. Clemm has heard that Edgar's grave is in the\n                  basement of the church in \n                   Baltimore, covered with rubbish\n                  and coal. Morison appends a note to Ingram denying\n                  the rumor about Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 184. Edgar did not think it worth\n                  while during his lifetime to deny reports of his\n                  having travelled to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. After his death, Mrs.\n                  Clemm burned hundreds of letters written to him by\n                  literary ladies. Fearing poverty might induce her to\n                  accept \n                   Rufus Griswold's offer of $500\n                  for the letters of a certain literary lady, she\n                  burned them, too. Other letters she gave to Griswold\n                  and now is unable to recover them from Griswold's\n                  executors. She has spent some time in Longfellow's\n                  house in \n                   Cambridge, MA, and he has\n                  recently asked for and received the last two of Poe's\n                  autographs that she had. Encloses two of Poe's\n                  letters to \n                   Neilson Poe, one written shortly\n                  before his death and the other written when Neilson\n                  offered to take Virginia into his home for several\n                  years.","Recalls that eleven years ago this day she looked\n                  upon her dear Eddie for the last time. Ingram\n                  corrects to read twelve years.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman has proof that \n                   Rufus Griswold purposely\n                  falsified Poe's MSS. and notes about him. Has seen a\n                  note Griswold wrote to a New York friend in 1850: \"I\n                  am getting on rapidly with my Life of Poe and am\n                  trying hard to do him justice, for Fanny's spirit\n                  looks down on me while I write.\" Griswold could not\n                  forgive Poe the interest he had inspired in Mrs. \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood. Mrs.\n                  Whitman has proof, too, from the \n                   University of Virginia that Poe\n                  was not expelled. He did not graduate simply because\n                  at that time the University conferred no degree. Poe\n                  had told her of his intention to write a pendant to\n                  his \"Domain of Arnheim,\" and after his death, when\n                  she first saw \"Landor's Cottage,\" she realized that\n                  he had introduced into it the delicate tints of the\n                  wallpaper he had noticed and praised in the room in\n                  which they had been sitting as they talked.","Both verses were allegedly delivered by Poe's\n                  departed spirit.","Enclosed in Item 340. There was a strange\n                  spiritual energy or effluence which seemed to\n                  surround Poe, acting on those en report with him. At\n                  one time she and Poe simultaneously received\n                  impressions of the original identity of the names\n                  Power ( \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's maiden\n                  name) and Poe.","Enclosed in Item 340. Poe saw her one July\n                  midnight in 1845; later he sent her anonymously the\n                  poem beginning \"I saw thee once --once only....\" A\n                  partially obscured date on the torn fly-leaf of an\n                  old family Bible fixes Mrs. Whitman's birth date,\n                  very likely, as 19 January 1803.","Enclosed in Item 340. Since she cannot live much\n                  longer, Mrs. Whitman wishes to put into Eveleth's\n                  hand a statement about one of \n                   Rufus Griswold's myths, a\n                  statement only once before put into writing and to\n                  but one person, \n                   Sallie E. Robins. Had she not\n                  wished her book about Poe to be entirely impersonal,\n                  she could long ago have refuted Griswold's story of\n                  Poe's riotous conduct at the house of a New England\n                  lady having made necessary the summoning of police.\n                  She writes a summary of Poe's visit to \n                   Providence during which he had to\n                  be cared for by a doctor at the home of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson is grateful Eveleth\n                  has said in his memoranda in the Old Guard for June\n                  that much of Griswold's Memoir of Poe is untrue.","Enclosed in Item 141. If Mrs. Whitman is to be the\n                  memorist of either of the two forthcoming editions of\n                  Poe's works, Eveleth will furnish for her use Poe's\n                  \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   Thomas Dunn English, a letter\n                  about the Poe-English quarrel, and a statement about\n                  the conclusion of \"Marie Roget\" that Poe made to\n                  him.","Enclosed in Item 340. Strangely, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  just seen a copy of the Round Table containing\n                  Eveleth's paragraph about Poe's \"Marie Roget.\" Poe\n                  told her the fact Eveleth states [i.e., that the\n                  murderer had confessed] and said that the name of the\n                  young naval officer was Spencer.","Enclosed in Item 143. \n                   Walt Whitman is grateful for Mrs.\n                  Whitman's remarks relayed to him by O'Connor: \"I kept\n                  back nothing of all you wrote, except one line, the\n                  one in which \n                   Jeannie Channing was reported as\n                  saying that W. W. loved me better than anyone living,\n                  which I guess is absurd and mistaken.\" Mentions \n                   Eugene Benson's article on Poe\n                  in the Galaxy, December 1868.","Enclosed in Item 340. \n                   Maria Clemm said years ago that\n                  Poe was in \n                   Europe only once, with the \n                   John Allan s. Poe's brother was\n                  the one in the \n                   St. Petersburg affair, an episode\n                   Edgar Poe attributed to himself,\n                  a course in keeping with his mental bent. He cared\n                  not a button for the Greeks, and still less, if\n                  possible, for liberty.","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The personal interest Poe\n                  excites is due to his intellectual sincerity.\"","Wertenbaker's recollections of Poe's student days\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia. Dr. \n                   J. F. Harrison, Chairman of the\n                  Faculty, appended a note dated 1 August 1874,\n                  attesting to the validity of this statement.","Reports conversation with \n                   William Gowans, the secondhand\n                  book dealer who had boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poes in \n                   New York City : Poe \"was\n                  uniformly quiet, reticent, gentlemanly in demeanor\n                  and during the whole period he lived there, not the\n                  slightest trace of intoxication or dissipation in the\n                  illustrious writer.... [Poe] kept good hours.\"","William Gowans is dead. Latto\n                  offers a tribute to Poe. A note appended by Mrs.\n                  Whitman suggests that it was through the publication\n                  of her poem \"The Portrait\" that Latto became\n                  acquainted with her.","A New York Tribune article compares some of \n                   Charles Swinburne's\n                  irregularities to Poe's \"demoniac eccentricities.\"\n                  \"So long as \n                   C. F. Briggs \u0026 \n                   Tho[ma]s Dunn English are'to the\n                  fore,' any thing I could say here would be overborne\n                  by their vituperation, for I understand they are\n                  perfectly rabid on the subject of Poe's enormities\n                  \u0026 they are both connected with the \n                   New York press.\"","Enclosed in Item 143. \"The July `Westminster' will\n                  have an extended review of [ \n                   Walt Whitman ], favorable! This\n                  will be anguish for his American detractors. After\n                  all their efforts, one of the great British\n                  Quarterlies comes out for him. Eheu!\"","Enclosed in Item 143. Mentions \n                   Walt Whitman's \n                   American Institute poem, his\n                  \"Carol of Harvest,\" and \"The Mystic Trumpeter,\" and\n                  he adds that there is an article in Harper's on Poe's\n                  lack of earnestness. Mrs. Whitman adds a note:\n                  \"Article in Harper's Easy Chair praising \n                   Ellery Channing for his\n                  earnestness \u0026 saying that if Poe, who laughed at\n                  him was slipping out of sight it was for want of this\n                  very earnestness.\"","Enclosed in Item 340. Davidson comments on Poe's\n                  Eureka. He and Mrs. Whitman think that Eveleth's\n                  chirography almost identical with Poe's, with less\n                  ego-personality. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's is very readable. Stoddard has written\n                  Davidson since the article was published that if he\n                  had not personally seen Poe he does not know that he\n                  should believe in his existence.","In reply to his first letter, dated 20 December\n                  1873, Mrs. Whitman expresses her gratification at his\n                  efforts to write a truthful Memoir of Poe, offers her\n                  assistance, but fears he will find the facts of Poe's\n                  life so elusive, the dates so contradictory, the\n                  details so perverted by relentless enemies and\n                  injudicious friends that his task will be very\n                  difficult. Has given to \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard letters\n                  and documents which prove that Poe was not expelled\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia and that\n                  he wrote his first \"To Helen\" in memory of the\n                  beloved mother of one of his schoolmates. In his\n                  article on Poe in Harper's Monthly for September\n                  1872, Stoddard discredits both, quotes from her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics without\n                  acknowledgement, and now evades direct replies to her\n                  questions. Mrs. Whitman agrees with Ingram that \"The\n                  Fire Fiend\" is a forgery. Mentions: \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's proposed\n                  lecture on Poe, \n                   William J. Pabodie's refutation\n                  in the New York Tribune of 7 June 1852, \n                   Rufus Griswold's charge that Poe\n                  committed outrages in the house of a New England lady\n                  on the eve of his marriage to her, and the coolness\n                  or estrangement which Poe said existed between\n                  himself and his sister Rosalie.","The Secretary of the U. S. Legation reports that a\n                  search of the Legation papers from 1820 to 1830\n                  reveals no case involving \n                   Edgar A. Poe.","Academy records show that Poe was admitted as a\n                  cadet on 1 July 1830, was tried by a General\n                  Court-Martial during January 1831, and was dismissed\n                  from the Academy on 6 March of that year.","The books of the American Consulate have been\n                  searched and no record found of \n                   Edgar A. Poe having been detained\n                  in \n                   Russia.","Mrs. Whitman believes that Mrs. Clemm, not Poe,\n                  might have borrowed money from \"a distinguished lady\n                  of South Carolina.\" Quotes from Poe's letter to her,\n                  24 November 1848, explaining his conduct when \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller and \n                   Anne C. Lynch (Botta) called on\n                  him to retrieve \n                   Frances S. Osgood's letters.\n                  Relates a visit she had from Professor \n                   Thomas Wyatt and all she knows of\n                  The Conchologist's First Book and Poe's part in it.\n                  Does not think Poe wrote \"To Isadore,\" since he did\n                  not mark it in the two volumes of the Broadway Journal which he gave to her. Tells of \n                   James W. Davidson's attempts to\n                  clear Poe's name. \n                   George Eveleth is a loyal\n                  supporter of Poe and thinks \n                   Rufus Griswold fabricated the\n                  letter in which Poe is quoted as calling Eveleth \"a\n                  Yankee impertinent,\" for Poe knew Eveleth was a\n                  Marylander and Griswold did not. Will try to recover\n                  from \n                   William F. Gill the printed\n                  account of \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe. Both \n                   John P. Kennedy and \n                   J. H. B.Latrobe have assured\n                  Eveleth that they and the Committee did not award the\n                  Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize to Poe for his tale\n                  under \"anything like the circumstances\" given by\n                  Griswold.","Davidson offers help in getting books for Ingram.\n                  Graham's can be had at secondhand book dealers'\n                  shops. A book dealer has told him that he once had an\n                  English Grammar written by Poe. Mentions that he kept\n                  a personal diary during the Civil War and that all\n                  his books and memoranda were destroyed when General\n                  Sherman burned Columbia.","Mrs. Whitman tells Ingram that she is not able to\n                  place for publication advance sheets of his article\n                  on Poe. Discusses \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  correspondence and attitude toward Poe. Menttions:\n                  Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Mr. and Mrs.\n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, and the\n                  possibility of \n                   Rufus Griswold's having\n                  improperly reprinted Poe's articles on the New York\n                  literati.","Mrs. Whitman can have articles copied from\n                  American and English magazines for him. Offers to\n                  lend to him her two volumes of the Broadway Journal;\n                  if she dies soon, as she thinks she may, she will see\n                  to it that they are sent to him as a gift. Discusses\n                  her own poetry and remarks that her poem \"Stanzas for\n                  Music\" undoubtedly suggested \"Annabel Lee\" to Poe.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Horace Greeley, \n                   Whitelaw Reid, Poe's favorite\n                  compositions being listed on the flyleaf of one of\n                  the Broadway Journal volumes, and the Atlantic's\n                  hostility toward Poe. Encloses copies of \"Sleeping\n                  Beauty\" and \"Cinderella,\" poems by Mrs. Whitman and\n                  her sister \n                   Anna Power.","History of the composition of Mrs. Whitman's poem\n                  \"Stanzas for Music.\" Gives an account of Poe's\n                  exemplary conduct at the \n                   University of Virginia, as\n                  written by \n                   John Willis of \n                   Orange County, Virginia.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   John Savage, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke, \n                   William F. Gill's\n                  irresponsibility, and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's error\n                  in saying that Poe attended the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  1825.","William F. Gill cannot find \n                   William Gowans' printed\n                  recollections of Poe. Mrs. Whitman lent him also a\n                  letter from \n                   Rufus Griswold to herself,\n                  written in the autumn of 1849, which was full of\n                  virulence and bitterness against Mrs. Clemm who had\n                  told Griswold that all of Mrs. Whitman's letters had\n                  been returned to her. \n                   Francis Wharton and \n                   Moreton Stille, in A Treatise on\n                  Medical Jurisprudence (1855), cite Poe's \"Murders in\n                  the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" as\n                  remarkable illustrations of the value of inductive\n                  reasoning and regret the author's early death and the\n                  causes which diverted his genius from the serious\n                  branches of study.","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram \"implicitly.\" She never\n                  spoke with Poe about his expedition to \n                   Greece. Quotes from a letter\n                  from Mrs. \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie written\n                  in 1859 to Mrs. \n                   Julia Deane Freeman in which she\n                  details \n                   John R. Thompson's stories about\n                  Poe's unhappy relations with the \n                   Allan family, his scandalous\n                  conduct in \n                   Richmond in 1848 and 1849, and\n                  his efforts to challenge \n                   John M. Daniel to a duel. Mrs.\n                  Clemm asked Mrs. Whitman for a sample of Poe's\n                  handwriting to give to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who did not have a line of it.","Mrs. Whitman has sent two photographs of Poe to\n                  Ingram. She encloses \n                   William Gowans' recollections of\n                  Poe, just returned by \n                   William F. Gill. Mentions: \n                   John Savage's article on Poe in\n                  the Democratic Review, \n                   Hiram Fuller, \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion, \n                   Robert Browning's \"Paracelsus,\"\n                  and \n                   James Clarence Mangan.","Mrs. Whitman encloses a photograph of Poe taken\n                  from the \"Ultima Thule\" daguerreotype. Comments on\n                  Poe's criticisms and critical abilities.","When \n                   Rufus Griswold visited Mrs.\n                  Whitman early in the summer of 1848, he appeared to\n                  be Poe's defender. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell gave Mrs. Whitman\n                  the letter she had received from Poe. Miss \n                   Maria J. McIntosh had heard Poe\n                  say gratifying things about Mrs. Whitman. When Poe\n                  sent her the anonymous poem beginning \"I saw thee\n                  once --once only,\" she replied, also anonymously,\n                  with six lines from her poem \"A Night in August.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  London Mirror for February is admirable, but she\n                  offers a few a corrections. Mrs. Botta (Anne C. Lynch ) is very much\n                  afraid of being socially compromised and likes to\n                  keep the peace with everyone. Mrs. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet still lives\n                  and would be implacable toward anyone who told the\n                  true story of her part in Poe's affairs. Poe's\n                  article on \n                   William Ellery Channing is not\n                  less amusing than true. Poe erred in calling him the\n                  son of the distinguished clergyman of the same name.\n                  He was his nephew.","Enclosed in Item 131. Mrs. Clemm told Davidson\n                  that Poe never left the \n                   United States after his boyhood\n                  trip to \n                   England.","Mrs. Whitman doubts the stories about Poe's having\n                  three wives and his mother having been a widow when\n                  she married \n                   David Poe. Poe himself told 1874\n                  her that he had allowed the lines to Eliza to be\n                  republished as addressed to \n                   Frances S. Osgood. [Items 88,\n                  90, 130 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 133. Gill asks Mrs. Whitman to\n                  write a personal sketch of Poe which will help him in\n                  the defense of Poe that he is composing.","Mrs. Whitman thinks \n                   William F. Gill's ambition\n                  exceeds his ability. She compares daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe that were made in \n                   Providence, offers an account of\n                  how she wrote her poem \"Lines to Arcturus,\" and\n                  expresses her feeling that \"To Isadore\" was not\n                  written by Poe. [Item 132 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman will write for Ingram's private\n                  satisfaction only the story of her acquaintance and\n                  engagement to Poe.","If a book of her poems which she sent to Ingram\n                  had not been lost, Mrs. Whitman would send the two\n                  volumes of the Broadway Journal, which Ingram could\n                  keep until the breaking of \"the seventh seal.\" She\n                  looks forward to death as the hour of triumph. She\n                  discusses Poe's relations with Mrs. \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard,\n                  Mrs. Whitman's family's attitudes towards Poe, and\n                  her engagement to marry him. She mentions \n                   Henry T. Tuckerman and \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, sends a\n                  German sketch of Poe and a translation of \"The Raven\"\n                  which has Poe's autograph, and again expresses her\n                  conviction that \"To Isadore\" was not written by\n                  Poe.","Ingram must not use Poe's remarks about Mrs. \n                   Jane Stith Stanard in his letter\n                  to Mrs. Whitman of 1 October 1848, or publish any of\n                  her other letters from Poe during her lifetime. \n                   William F. Gill is writing a\n                  refutation of all the calumnies against Poe; yet he\n                  did not know that Mrs. \n                   Frances S. Osgood's\n                  reminiscences of Poe were to be found in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir! She has\n                  written a peremptory letter to Gill asking for the\n                  return of her Poe biographical materials.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe's pencilled words in\n                  the Broadway Journal, the vivid and lifelike dreams\n                  said by him to have preceded his compositions, and\n                  daguerreotypes of Poe. \n                   John Willis said that Poe's room\n                  at the \n                   University of Virginia was\n                  covered with drawings. When \n                   William J. Pabodie died in 1870,\n                  he willed to her Poe's letter to him of 4 December\n                  1848; she gave it to \n                   Thomas C. Latto who has now\n                  returned it to her for Ingram to have copied. Mrs.\n                  Whitman denies that Poe borrowed money from \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet and urges\n                  Ingram to use caution in what he writes about the\n                  alleged incident. She writes of Poe's attitudes\n                  toward \n                   John Allan, the first and second\n                  Mrs. Allan, and his sister Rosalie. And she sends\n                  both volumes of the Broadway Journal to Ingram as a\n                  gift. Mentions: \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, \n                   Evert A. Duyckinck, and \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  poetry. [Item 53 enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman trusts Ingram's heart and intellect\n                  but fears his impetuosity in his work on Poe. Mrs. \n                   Maria Clemm had written that Poe\n                  was in \n                   Richmond only once after Virginia\n                  died. Tells the story of Poe's leaving out the last\n                  stanza of \"Ulalume\" when it was republished in the\n                  Providence Journal. Thinks Ingram's paper on Poe in\n                  the Temple Bar (June 1874) is very fine, but again\n                  she suggests corrections. Poe had no consumptive\n                  tendencies; he died unquestionably of inflammation of\n                  the brain. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and \n                   Rosalie Poe. [Items 66 and 89\n                  enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 140. Davidson thinks Ingram's\n                  article on Poe in the Temple Bar will be fatal to \n                   Rufus Griswold.","Mrs. Whitman has never seen a ghost but once saw a\n                  beautiful luminous hand write for her three initials,\n                  which she still keeps. Retells Poe's story of his\n                  devotion to \n                   Jane (\"Helen\") Stith Stanard and\n                  of his lonely vigils at her grave. Thinks that Poe's\n                  \"Lines to M. L. S.\" were addressed to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster (Mrs.\n                  Shelton). Ingram may use for publication \n                   Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie's\n                  letter to \n                   Julia Deane Freeman. Quotes from\n                   Maunsell B. Field's book about\n                  Poe's lectures on the universe and his interview with\n                  Putnam about publishing it. Mentions: \n                   Winwood Reade's article on \n                   Charles Swinburne in the Galaxy\n                  (15 March 1857), \n                   Marguerite St. Leon Loud, the\n                  American Metropolitan Magazine, discrepancies in\n                  dates assigned for Poe's birth. [Item 139\n                  enclosed.]","Mrs. Whitman cannot find old numbers of Graham's\n                  Magazine. Mentions \n                   James Parton's sketch of Poe in\n                  the New York Ledger. [Item 102 enclosed.]","Enclosed in Item 144. Ingram's disclosures in his\n                  Temple Bar article are astounding. What a reprobate \n                   Rufus Griswold was!","William J. Pabodie committed\n                  suicide in 1870, just after inheriting $100,000 from\n                  his brother. \n                   William F. Gill is scheduled to\n                  give a special series of dramatic readings in \n                   Boston. Mrs. Whitman tells the\n                  story of having read \"Ulalume\" in the Whig Review in\n                  December 1847 and of how one day when she and Poe\n                  were in the \n                   Athenaeum Library, she asked him\n                  if he knew the author. He turned, took a bound volume\n                  of the magazine, and wrote his name beneath the\n                  printed poem. Nearly twenty-six years later, she\n                  again found the volume in the library stacks. Poe had\n                  then agreed with her that the poem would be better\n                  without its last stanza and had so prepared it for\n                  republication in the Providence Journal. Mentions \n                   William D. O'Connor's defense of\n                   Walt Whitman, The Good Grey\n                  Poet.","After meeting \n                   Walt Whitman when he visited the\n                  Channings in \n                   Providence, Mrs. Whitman has\n                  overcome somewhat her repugnance for his writings,\n                  but she has torn out a third of the volume of his\n                  poems that he gave to her. A deadly enemy wrote the\n                  notice of Poe in Allibone's Dictionary. Discusses\n                  paintings and photographs of herself. Mentions: \n                   Cephas G. Thompson, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, and \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne.","Poe autographs are very rare. Mrs. Whitman is\n                  unable to point out any letter in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of Poe\n                  as authentic. Though she has reason to believe many\n                  of them are not, it is difficult to prove. Cuts the\n                  Preface and Index from her autographed copy of Poe's\n                  The Raven and Other Poems and encloses them to\n                  Ingram. \n                   William E. Burton has been dead\n                  many years. Mrs. Whitman relates her visit to the Poe\n                  cottage in 1856. Miss \n                   Anna Blackwell boarded at the\n                  cottage for several weeks in 1847. Mentions: Poe's\n                  reading of \"The Raven\" at one of \n                   Anne Lynch's (Mrs. Botta)\n                  soirees, \n                   James T. Fields, \n                   Thomas C. Latto, \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary R. Mitford, \n                   Rosalie Poe, and \n                   Clarence Mangan.","Could Mrs. Whitman not edit a new and complete\n                  edition of Poe's works? Mrs. Whitman commented on the\n                  margin: \"Could I not discover the longitude or square\n                  of the circle!!!\" O'Connor expresses his faith in\n                  Ingram.","The mournful heritage of madness in Ingram's\n                  household creates a closer bond of sympathy between\n                  him and Mrs. Whitman, for she has long been\n                  subservient to the fluctuating moods of her dear\n                  sister, Anna, whose insanity compels her to lead a\n                  life of comparative seclusion, or to have all social\n                  relations obstructed and complicated. Mrs. Whitman\n                  describes \n                   William D. O'Connor's\n                  personality and official situation in \n                   Washington, D. C., Poe's having\n                  made two versions of the last line of \"Annabel Lee,\"\n                  the identity of M. L. S., and \"Landor's Cottage\" as a\n                  pendant to Poe's \"The Domain of Arnheim.\"","Rosalie Poe did not know she had\n                  a brother or brothers until a few years before\n                  Edgar's death and can give Ingram no information\n                  about him. Begs for money to relieve her\n                  destitution.","Mrs. Whitman worries about Ingram's mental and\n                  emotional disturbances over his work on Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm told \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis that Poe had\n                  written \"Annabel Lee\" for her, and \n                   Frances S. Osgood was openly\n                  scornful at the idea. Mrs. Whitman has no doubt her\n                  own \"Stanzas for Music\" called forth Poe's poem as an\n                  expression to her of undying love and remembrance.\n                  She relates in detail the painful scenes in her home\n                  when she parted from Poe. Mentions: \n                   James W. Davidson, \n                   William J. Pabodie, \n                   John Nelson Arnold, and \n                   Anna Blackwell.","Senator \n                   William Sprague's sister, Mary\n                  Anna (Mrs. \n                   Frank W. Latham ), has found two\n                  volumes of Graham's Magazine, and the March 1850\n                  number carries the longsought letter of \n                   George R. Graham to \n                   N. P. Willis in defense of Poe!\n                  Mrs. Whitman will copy it \"verbatim\" for Ingram if\n                  not allowed to cut it from the magazine. Also, in\n                  this volume are two articles by \n                   Thomas A. Wyatt, of Conchology\n                  fame.","Powell describes \n                   Rosalie Poe's destitute\n                  condition, her lack of mental ability, \n                   Neilson Poe's want of interest\n                  in her, and \n                   Edgar Poe's grave being level\n                  with the ground.","Mrs. Whitman encloses MS. copy of \n                   George R. Graham's 1850 letter\n                  to \n                   N. P. Willis. When \n                   Thomas C. Clarke came to see her\n                  in \n                   New York City in 1859, he and\n                  Graham rode together on the omnibus; Graham was much\n                  pleased over Mrs. Whitman's defense of Poe.","Mrs. Whitman encloses copies of excerpts from \n                   Eugene Benson's article, \"Poe\n                  and Hawthorne,\" from the Galaxy, December 1868. She\n                  hopes that Ingram can obtain \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' permission to\n                  use a reproduction of her daguerreotype of Poe in his\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. Why does not Mrs.\n                  Lewis like \n                   Maria Clemm ? \"Annabel Lee\" is an\n                  expression of Poe's remembrance of Mrs. Whitman.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Frances S. Osgood and Poe, Poe's\n                  habit of writing only short letters, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   George W. Eveleth, Poe's\n                  contributions to Graham's Magazine in the\n                  January-July 1842 volume, and woodcuts of the \n                   University of Virginia in\n                  Harper's for May 1872.","Mrs. Whitman is glad to give the two volumes of\n                  the Broadway Journal to Ingram; her copies of the\n                  1845 edition of Poe's poems and of Eureka are to be\n                  his, too. She offers to share a lock of Poe's hair\n                  with Ingram. The palpable forgery \"MS. Found in a\n                  Barn\" demonstrates the interest still evoked by Poe's\n                  name. Poe's friends have declined \n                   George W. Childs' offer to erect\n                  a monument over Poe's grave.","Official from the British Consulate writes that\n                  the Reverend \n                   George W. Powell of \n                   Baltimore is willing to answer\n                  questions about \n                   Rosalie Poe and that Powell\n                  believes that if he had time to do so, he could put\n                  his hands upon \"many\" unpublished letters of Poe.\n                  Laments the disgraceful condition of Poe's grave.","Anna Blackwell described to Mrs.\n                  Whitman the interior of the Poe cottage, the two\n                  parlor tables made by Poe and covered with green\n                  baize held with brass-headed nails. \n                   Jane E. Locke visited the Poe\n                  cottage in June 1848. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was not a true\n                  friend of Poe if she did endorse \n                   Rufus Griswold's estimate of his\n                  intercourse with \"men.\" Mrs. Whitman has been told\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm professed to believe\n                  Rosalie was the child of the nurse who had charge of\n                  her in her infancy. Mrs. Clemm did not inspire Mrs.\n                  Whitman with confidence in her sincerity, but she did\n                  love Poe and Virginia, and Poe believed in her, at\n                  least. Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ingram's\n                  sickness and her own, \n                   George W. Eveleth and the\n                  \"continuation\" of \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" \n                   George W. Powell, and \n                   Rosalie Poe.","Neilson Poe is a lawyer and any\n                  information he might give about Edgar will be\n                  authentic. \n                   John P. Kennedy's letters from\n                  Poe will come to the \n                   Peabody Institute upon Mrs.\n                  Kennedy's death.","Rosalie begs Ingram for financial help. She\n                  encloses a clipping from a \n                   Boston newspaper which will\n                  confirm her destitution.","Ingram has been sick in \n                   London and Mrs. Whitman in \n                   Providence. This note is simply\n                  to keep lines of communication open.","Mrs. Whitman does not wonder that \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis thought Poe \"an\n                  angel.\" Despite his irregularities, Mrs. Whitman\n                  always felt that he was essentially noble, gentle,\n                  and good. \n                   George W. Eveleth writes that Poe\n                  said he meant \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\" to mystify\n                  the reader. Mrs. Whitman has written to \n                   John Neal. She knows \"by\n                  instinct\" that Poe was descended from the Le Poers.\n                  Her relatives thought that Mrs. Whitman's father\n                  strongly resembled \n                   George Poe of \n                   Georgetown. She agrees that\n                  Ingram was appointed for his Poe work; he is equipped\n                  to be Poe's champion as no other ever was or could\n                  be. She has only five copies of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics left.\n                  Mentions: Ingram's article on Poe's early poems in\n                  Every Saturday, \n                   James W. Davidson, Reverend \n                   George W. Powell.","Neal cannot remember when or where his defense of\n                  Poe was published. A note from Mrs. Whitman on the\n                  back of this letter accompanies a newspaper clipping\n                  announcing the death of \n                   Samuel Masury, \n                   Providence daguerreotypist.","Gives Ingram permission to have her house in \n                   Stoke Newington photographed for\n                  his work. There have been many changes in it since\n                  her father took it.","William D. O'Connor thinks\n                  Ingram's article in the August Eclectic, from the\n                  Temple Bar, not savage enough on \n                   Rufus Griswold. Three Baltimore\n                  editors are roused by the renewed interest in Poe.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has just seen for the first time a copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems, recently\n                  purchased by \n                   Caleb Harris, who clearly\n                  recalls having seen an allusion to a volume of poems\n                  called Tamerlane and published in \n                   Boston. She offers a critical\n                  estimate of \n                   James Hannay's edition of Poe's\n                  poems (London, 1853). She reports that \n                   Caleb Harris's consternation\n                  over her having cut the pages from Poe's presentation\n                  copy of his 1845 edition of poems has caused her to\n                  promise to give him the book when Ingram returns the\n                  leaves. Mrs. Whitman concludes cryptically that if\n                  she \"had never seen Poe intoxicated, [she would]\n                  never have consented to marry him; had he kept his\n                  promise never again to taste wine, [she would] never\n                  have broken the engagement.\" Mentions: article by \n                   M. J. Lamb in Appleton's Journal,\n                  18 July 1874, about Poe's house at Fordham; \n                   Leslie Stephen's disparaging\n                  remarks about Poe and praise of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne in Fraser; \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Ralph Waldo Emerson, \n                   Neilson Poe, bad illustrations\n                  in Redfield's edition of Poe's works; and articles in\n                  St. Paul's (November and December 1873) by \n                   Roden Noel on Byron; Poe's\n                  detractors being greatly stirred in \n                   Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman encloses newsclippings received from \n                   William D. O'Connor about \n                   Rosalie Poe's death in \n                   Washington, DC. She thinks that\n                  Ingram's efforts to raise money for her must have\n                  cheered her last moments.","Maria Clemm never mentioned \n                   Rosalie Poe in any of her letters\n                  to Mrs. Whitman. She relates an account of an evening\n                  spent with \n                   Phoebe Cary and \n                   Alice Cary and comments upon \n                   Mary Clemmer Ames' book about\n                  them. Mentions: Poe's popularity in Germany, \n                   James W. Davidson, Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight, \n                   Bret Harte, \n                   George Poe.","Mrs. Whitman's young friend, \n                   Rose Peckham, leaves \n                   Providence to study art in \n                   Paris and will call upon Ingram\n                  in \n                   London. \n                   Thomas C. Latto has received his\n                  autograph Poe letter returned by Ingram.","Poe was a great favorite among his classmates and\n                  was remarkable for the quickness with which he\n                  prepared all his recitations.","Mrs. Whitman believes in the stars and the great\n                  truths of the occult sciences. She once made an\n                  anagram of her name, \n                   Sarah Helen Poer : \"Ah Seraph\n                  Lenore.\" To have heard Poe read \"Ulalume\" or \"The\n                  Bridal Ballad\" is a never-to-be-forgotten memory. She\n                  is enjoying this summer beyond any in her life; she\n                  has unmistakable \"tokens\" of the presence of loved\n                  ones ever near. Mentions: illustrations in various\n                  editions of Poe's works, \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, Griswold's\n                  marriage, an article on Poe in the Southern Magazine\n                  for August, \n                   William F. Gill's lecturing,\n                  publication of Gill's The Martyred Church, and Gill's\n                  fear that Mrs. Whitman will think he has plagiarized\n                  one of her poems from her translation of \n                   Ludwig Uhland's \"Lost\n                  Church.\"","Browne defends Poe's character, attacks \n                   Rufus Griswold and \n                   James Russell Lowell vehemently\n                  for their treatment of Poe, tells Ingram the story of\n                  drugging and cooping of voters in \n                   Baltimore, and offers to assist\n                  Ingram in Poe's defence.","Donaldson, an aeronaut, has tried and proved Poe's\n                  theory of \"staying\" a balloon in mid-air. Mrs.\n                  Whitman notes on the back of this letter that \n                   Washington Harrison Donaldson was\n                  engaged by \n                   P. T. Barnum to make thirty\n                  successive balloon ascensions to determine the wind,\n                  in view of an ocean balloon voyage to be\n                  undertaken.","Valentine describes Poe's personal appearance. He\n                  has a portion of a Poe MS. given to him by \n                   John R. Thompson. Valentine is\n                  now busy modeling a recumbent marble figure of\n                  General \n                   Robert E. Lee. When time\n                  permits, he will perhaps model a bust of Poe from a\n                  daguerreotype.","A woman's married name is not to be used in\n                  evolving anagrams that reveal the secrets of her\n                  destiny. Mrs. Whitman is delighted to learn from\n                  Ingram that his name means \"Son of the Raven.\" She\n                  thinks her \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics will be\n                  better understood later as revealing one dominant\n                  phase of Poe's genius. \n                   William F. Gill is disturbed that\n                  Ingram's Memoir will take the wind out of his sails,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman believes Gill already has too much\n                  wind for his amount of ballast on board. She did not\n                  recognize \n                   Rufus Griswold when she met him\n                  briefly at \n                   Alice Cary's home in \n                   New York ; his appearance was\n                  much altered, and he turned away in confusion. Gill\n                  claims to have got from \n                   George R. Graham much fresh\n                  information that is damaging to Griswold and says\n                  that he has a magazine article prepared that is very\n                  strong against Griswold. Mrs. Whitman directs Ingram\n                  to destroy or keep anything she sends to him, unless\n                  she expressly requests its return. Mentions: \n                   Rose Peckham, Ingram's advice\n                  about a new edition of \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics, \n                   John M. Daniel's powerful and\n                  graphic delineation of Poe, \n                   Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's\n                  Vert-Vert, \n                   Jane (Helen) Stith Stanard, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's secret\n                  hostility to Poe, and \n                   William Wertenbaker's refutation\n                  of stories about Poe's dissolute habits and expulsion\n                  from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman comments upon\n                  reproductions of photographs of Poe in Harper's taken\n                  from engravings.","Didier knows almost certainly where Poe was in\n                  1831, 1832, and 1833. He has information about Poe's\n                  brother, about Poe's family in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe in \n                   Richmond and at the \n                   University of Virginia. He knows\n                  the exact date and place of Poe's birth and has in\n                  his possession a copy of a MS. poem by Poe never\n                  printed. Didier offers to sell all this to Ingram for\n                  $100.","Caleb Harris will send his copy\n                  of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems for Ingram's use.\n                  Mrs. Whitman will inquire about \n                   Edward Coote Pinckney's\n                  poems.","Neal recalls his associations with Poe, including\n                  a copy of Poe's letter to him of 4 June 1840. Text in\n                  Letters 1: 137.","Donohoe has given Ingram's letter to Reverend \n                   George W. Powell and declines to\n                  be of further assistance in Ingram's quest for\n                  information.","Poe did not die drunk, as the world believes.","The New York Tribune has a long notice of Ingram's\n                  forthcoming edition of Poe's works. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris \"feels sure\"\n                  there was an 1827 edition of Poe's poems, and he\n                  thinks \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in the Aldine on Poe was written with malicious\n                  intent. Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight reports\n                  from \n                   Germany that students there pour\n                  over Poe's works. \n                   George Ripley noticed Mrs.\n                  Whitman's poems in the Tribune, 14 November 1853.","Key has no recollection of Poe's having attended\n                  his class in mathematics at the \n                   University of Virginia.\n                  Professor \n                   George Blaettermann is dead.\n                  Professor \n                   George Long is alive and\n                  hearty.","Mrs. Whitman has received the first volume of\n                  Ingram's edition of Poe's works and thinks the Memoir\n                  cannot fail to refute \n                   Rufus Griswold's fabrications. \n                   John Nelson Arnold, the artist,\n                  admires the reproduction of Poe's portrait. Senator \n                   Henry Bowen Anthony, who knew\n                  Poe, thinks the portrait fine.","Mrs. Whitman suggests a few changes and offers\n                  gentle criticisms of Ingram's Memoir of Poe. She\n                  gives a character sketch of \n                   William J. Pabodie.","Mrs. Nichols identifies \"M.L.S.\" as the former \n                   Marie Louise Shew, now the wife\n                  of Dr. \n                   Ronald S. Houghton. \n                   William E. Burton and \n                   George R. Graham are dead. She\n                  will tell Ingram many things about Poe that she does\n                  not care to write.","Morison encloses copies of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks still lives in \n                   Baltimore. Poe's father was\n                  disowned by his family because he married an actress.\n                   Neilson Poe planned in 1860 to\n                  write a Memoir of Edgar but never wrote anything. He\n                  has told Morison that a single glass of wine would\n                  set Edgar's brain on fire, that he took care of Edgar\n                  in his last sickness, had him suitably buried, and\n                  ordered a tombstone that was destroyed by a railroad\n                  car that jumped the track, that Poe's brother,\n                  William Henry, was even more a genius than Edgar,\n                  that it was William Henry who went to Greece and\n                  Russia and got into trouble, not Edgar, and that\n                  Edgar and Virginia were first married in \n                   Christ's Church in \n                   Baltimore by the Reverend \n                   John Johns. Though the true\n                  story of Edgar's death has never been told, Neilson\n                  might not be willing to tell it. In her letters to\n                  Neilson, Mrs. Clemm denies that Edgar was ever\n                  unfaithful to Virginia and that he attempted to\n                  seduce the second Mrs. Allan.","Maria Clemm's maternal love and\n                  fidelity to Poe cannot be questioned. Letter\n                  mentions: \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), \n                   Sarah J. Hale, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, \n                   William E. Burton, and \n                   John Brougham.","Mrs. Whitman offers criticisms of Ingram's Memoir\n                  by both \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris and herself.\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett, when a\n                  partner in the publishing firm of \n                   Bartlett and Welford, lived on\n                  the same street as Poe in \n                   New York. He never saw Poe\n                  stimulated by anything other than strong coffee,\n                  which he drank freely. \n                   Frances S. Osgood was an intimate\n                  friend of the Bartletts, and Poe often visited them\n                  when she was staying in their home. Poe told Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he was born on 19 January, but did not\n                  give the year.","Valentine continues his search for Poe\n                  biographical materials. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  disinclined to help, but he will try to get Dr. \n                   Richard C. Ambler and \n                   Thomas Bolling to write out their\n                  recollections of Poe. Valentine has a life-size\n                  crayon drawing of Poe's head made from a\n                  daguerreotype. Mentions \n                   Ebenezer Burling.","Mrs. Whitman has broken off relations with \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith and\n                  believes Mrs. Smith relied on her imagination for the\n                  \"facts\" in her sketch of Poe. Mrs. Whitman remembers \n                   Mary Gove Nichols and her novel\n                  Mary Lindsey [Mary Lyndon]. She is glad to know that\n                  Poe's \"M.L.S.\" was \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton). Dr. \n                   Abraham H. Okie, who met Poe at\n                  Mrs. Whitman's home, thinks Ingram's portrait good\n                  but not so handsome as Poe was. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has given\n                  her his partner Welford's address; he might furnish\n                  new information. Mentions: \n                   Anna Blackwell, \n                   Anne Lynch Botta, Dr. \n                   Max E. Lazarus, and hotels in \n                   Providence where Poe stayed.","The revised edition of \n                   Rufus Griswold's Poets of\n                  America gives \n                   Frederick W. Thomas' death as\n                  1864.","Conway's cousin, \n                   John M. Daniel, had an article\n                  in the Southern Literary Messenger on Poe's death.\n                  Poe was generally looked upon as \"a hard case,\" for\n                  he borrowed sums of money that he knew he could not\n                  repay; in such matters he had no principle.","Caleb Fiske Harris found in \n                   New York a copy of the 1829\n                  edition of Poe's poems and hired a copyist to make a\n                  list of the contents which Mrs. Whitman copies and\n                  encloses to Ingram. \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry proves there was an 1827 edition\n                  also. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Revised\n                  Memoir of Poe contains an account of Poe's having\n                  bought and charged to \n                   John Allan seventeen broadcloth\n                  coats. \n                   Maria Clemm's assertions in\n                  reference to Longfellow should be taken cum grano.\n                  Mrs. Whitman wishes Ingram's Memoir of Poe had been\n                  less personal. Perhaps she will eventually entrust to\n                  Ingram all of her letters from Poe.","Mrs. Whitman criticizes \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' reminiscences\n                  of Poe which Ingram has reprinted in part: there was\n                  no restlessness in his movements or features, a\n                  calmness of eye and gesture, self-control and poise,\n                  yes. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems are not complete, since he has\n                  omitted the first \"To Helen.\" \"For Annie\" was written\n                  after Poe had succumbed to temptation in \n                   Lowell, MA, and had been nursed\n                  by \n                   Annie Richmond ; the poem was\n                  first published in a \n                   Boston paper in 1849. \n                   Rufus Griswold's reported offer\n                  of $500 for a certain lady's correspondence with Poe\n                  can be accounted for because it often has been said\n                  that \n                   Maria Clemm left a letter from \n                   Frances S. Osgood where it could\n                  be seen by a visitor. Mrs. Whitman encloses a parody\n                  of \"The Bells\" which she assumes to be \"a fling\" at\n                  Stoddard's \"Grecian Flute.\"","Miss Houghton's mother is willing to help Ingram\n                  by pointing out false statements in \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir. \n                   Maria Clemm lived in their\n                  household until the publication of Poe's works by\n                  Griswold gave her support. She encloses as a gift\n                  Poe's letter to \n                   Marie Louise Shew (Mrs.\n                  Houghton), dated 29 January 1847 [Item 32].","Mrs. Whitman points out errors in \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Poe's Tamerlane is\n                  listed in \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry; there is an article on The\n                  Conchologist's First Book in the Home Journal. \n                   William F. Gill says that \n                   George R. Graham is alive; Ingram\n                  says that he is dead. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris lists four\n                  books published by \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis and signed with\n                  three versions of her name.","Mrs. Oakes Smith's thirty-page sketch of Poe\n                  amounts to an analysis of his mentality. She met \n                   Rufus Griswold and accused him of\n                  having scalped Poe and taken his life. Poe had a warm\n                  attachment to \n                   Eliza White and was to have\n                  married her. He did not \"claim\" Virginia as his wife\n                  for two years after they were married. She mentions \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller.","Mrs. Houghton encloses Poe's letter to her uncle, \n                   Hiram Barney, ca. 1847. She\n                  diagnosed Poe's sickness as lesion of the brain which\n                  produced insanity when stimulated; Dr. \n                   Valentine Mott confirmed this.\n                  Poe dictated to her incidents of his past, including\n                  a part of a poem to her called \"The Beloved\n                  Physician,\" which he later finished and she bought\n                  for $25. She offered to pay \n                   Rufus Griswold to change his\n                  Memoir of Poe, leaving her watch and diamond bracelet\n                  with him as security; he later said that the book\n                  would sell best as it was and that Longfellow and \n                   Maria Clemm approved of it or\n                  were reconciled to it. Later, Mrs. Clemm sold the\n                  bracelet, returned to her by Griswold, for $300\n                  (though this is difficult to believe because it was\n                  worth $500), and tried to find Mrs. Houghton in order\n                  to return the watch. Poe \"often\" said that he had\n                  never prospered by \"honest\" writing because \"when he\n                  wrote a really honest criticism of any author or\n                  work, he made himself enemies either from the\n                  publishers or the authors.\" He once predicted that\n                  Longfellow would coldly stab his reputation after his\n                  death. Poe showed anger when Mrs. Clemm called on\n                  Griswold and accepted favors from him. Mrs. Houghton\n                  bought \n                   Virginia Poe's coffin, grave\n                  clothes, and Edgar's mourning suit. After Virginia's\n                  death, she persuaded a gentleman to start a\n                  collection for Poe and Mrs. Clemm; General \n                   Winfield Scott contributed $5.\n                  She has found a copy of Poe's Tales published by \n                   Wiley and Putnam in 1845 and will\n                  send it and a copy of The Raven and Other Poems if\n                  Ingram wishes her to do so. She tells the stories of\n                  Poe's writing \"The Bells\" at her house, of \n                   Virginia Poe giving to her a\n                  portrait of Poe (since stolen) and a little jewel\n                  case that belonged to his mother, and of the\n                  miniature of Poe's mother which he possessed being\n                  saved at the hospital when he died. Poe never asked\n                  Griswold for money, but Mrs. Clemm did. Mrs. Houghton\n                  told Poe that he must find a woman strong enough and\n                  fond enough of him to manage his affairs or he faced\n                  sudden death. She saw Poe intoxicated only once,\n                  after he had dined with Griswold; he was not given to\n                  drink until madness had begun from other causes; and\n                  he was \"not a sensualist in his mature manhood.\" She\n                  has the MSS. of \"To Mrs. M.L.S.\" and the valentine to\n                  Marie Louise. Poe's old military cloak was used to\n                  cover Virginia during her last sickness, and Poe wore\n                  it to her funeral. She dislikes \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Nichols urges Ingram to do justice to \n                   Maria Clemm in his biography of\n                  Poe. Mentions \n                   John Neal.","Mrs. Nichols suggests corrections for Ingram's\n                  Memoir. Poe's sacrifice of his literary conscience in\n                  praising \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' poems was\n                  justified by his gratitude for favors received from\n                  her. Poe asked \n                   Rufus Griswold to be literary\n                  executor. She will write her recollections of Poe for\n                  Ingram's use.","The Poe family in \n                   Baltimore is now influential. \n                   Neilson Poe is said to have\n                  important documents about Edgar. A monument is to be\n                  erected over Poe's grave.","Enclosed in Item 197. Hopkins tried to persuade\n                  Poe in 1848 to omit pantheistic elements from his\n                  Eureka, but Poe refused, saying, \"My whole nature\n                  utterly revolts at the idea that there is any Being\n                  in the Universe superior to myself!\" He and Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton on one\n                  occasion found Poe \"crazy-drunk\" and took him home to\n                  Fordham, leaving $5 with \n                   Maria Clemm for immediate\n                  necessities. Poe thought that the Jesuit fathers at \n                   Fordham College were highly\n                  cultivated gentlemen and scholars because they\n                  smoked, drank, and played cards like gentlemen and\n                  never said a word about religion.","Anna Blackwell, not Elizabeth,\n                  boarded with \n                   Maria Clemm at Fordham to rest\n                  from her literary labors, the cottage having been\n                  recommended by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, who headed a\n                  water-cure establishment in \n                   New York. It was Anna, who seems\n                  not to have been friendly to Poe, who gave Mrs.\n                  Whitman Poe's letter to her of 14 June 1848. Mrs.\n                  Whitman is certain that Ingram printed nothing\n                  without her implied authority. Mentions: articles in\n                  the Examiner, the Saturday Review, the Spectator; \n                   William F. Gill's blunders with\n                  the Poe materials he received from Mrs. Whitman; \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's\n                  Philobiblion article on Poe; another in Hearth and\n                  Home by \n                   A. B. Harris.","Poe was chameleon-like, taking on his coloring\n                  from those about him. Mrs. Oakes Smith encloses her\n                  thirty-page sketch of Poe.","A friend has dissuaded \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris from paying\n                  $50 for the 1829 edition of Poe's poems. Harris will\n                  send his copy of the 1831 edition to Ingram within a\n                  fortnight.","Marie Louise Barney married first\n                  Dr. \n                   Joel Shew, then Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton. Poe went\n                  intoxicated to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's home,\n                  followed by a crowd of boys, which caused his\n                  engagement to her to be broken. Mrs. Whitman took\n                  money from her mother to pay his way out of town.","Enclosed in Item 226. Hopkins remembers \n                   Thomas Dunn English as a\n                  scoundrel. He has written Dr. \n                   Caleb Sprague Henry, editor of\n                  the New York Review, to inquire about Poe's\n                  connection with that publication.","Enclosed in Item 226. Poe never was \"engaged as a\n                  writer on the New York Review\"; he contributed one\n                  article on his own account.","Caleb Fiske Harris has sent\n                  Ingram his copy of the 1831 edition of Poe's poems. \n                   Edmund Gosse's criticism of\n                  Poe's poetry in the Examiner (27 January 1875) is\n                  presumptuous; he would appreciate \"Ulalume\" if he\n                  understood its weird symbolism. Mentions: Ingram's\n                  article in the International Review and the\n                  Athenaeum's notice of his edition of Poe's works.","Mary Star was loyal to Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm, but Poe spoke of\n                  her with scorn as being married to a merchant-tailor\n                  and content with her lot.","Because everyone knew who it was Poe had praised\n                  so extravagantly in \"To M. L. S--,\" Mrs. Houghton did\n                  not want him to publish \"The Beloved Physician.\" \n                   Rufus Griswold wanted it at one\n                  time, and if he got it he must have suppressed it out\n                  of enmity to her. Mrs. Houghton encloses MSS. of \"To\n                  Marie Louise\" and another valentine Poe sent to her\n                  \"a year\" later. The day before she died, \n                   Virginia Poe took a worn letter\n                  from her portfolio, written by the second Mrs. Allan,\n                  in which she acknowledged that she alone had been\n                  responsible for \n                   John Allan's neglect of Poe\n                  because she thought Poe really might be blood kin to\n                  Allan. Griswold must have gotten this letter along\n                  with Poe's other papers. She has found in a vase some\n                  leaves from the journal she kept while Poe was sick.\n                  Poe laughed at the perplexity people showed over the\n                  identity of the persons to whom his poems were\n                  written.","Mrs. Whitman does not object to her book \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics being\n                  called her \"finest poem.\" She cautions Ingram to keep\n                  cool and not to provoke a fight with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard. Last\n                  week's Nation has critical reviews of both Ingram's\n                  and Stoddard's Memoirs of Poe. \n                   John Russell Bartlett has made a\n                  copy of \n                   Anna Blackwell's letter from\n                  Poe; Mrs. Whitman will copy it verbatim for Ingram\n                  [Item 33]. \n                   Maria Clemm did not mention \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton to\n                  Mrs. Whitman.","Nichols returns \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's book\n                  which he thinks a shabby and nasty biography.","Poe was mortified over \n                   Maria Clemm's accepting money\n                  from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, which obliged\n                  him to praise her verse in print; he fled the house\n                  to escape her. He had a bundle of his mother's\n                  letters and two sketches, one of \n                   Boston harbor, 1808; Mrs. Clemm\n                  gave them to \n                   Rosalie Poe. Poe's estimate of \n                   John Henry Hopkins was wrong.\n                  Mrs. Clemm dressed very plainly, lectured her\n                  hostess, and worshiped the world; had she not covered\n                  over many things, many charitable persons in New York\n                  would willingly have helped save Poe. Mrs. Houghton\n                  has a picture very like the side view she had copied\n                  of \n                   Elizabeth Poe. Poe carefully\n                  wrote into Mrs. Houghton's album the verse \"Like All\n                  True Souls of Noble Birth,\" sent to her by \n                   Mary Gove Nichols. She has two\n                  of Poe's letters to her. He always treated her with\n                  respect, but he was \"so excentric [sic] and so unlike\n                  others\" that she was forced \"to define a position I\n                  was bound to take.\" A man named Jones came to her\n                  house recently asking to buy Poe biographical\n                  materials. She encloses a letter from \n                   Annie Richmond to her in which\n                  Mrs. Clemm is described as treacherous and cruel.","Poe suffered from \"mental isolation, living in\n                  dreams and bewildered by the real.\" He saw nothing\n                  wrong in his fulsome praise of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis's poetry, since\n                  he was indebted to her. \n                   Maria Clemm engineered his\n                  marriage to Virginia to keep him from marrying \n                   Eliza White, who was capricious\n                  and addicted to morphia; but to Poe women were no\n                  more than a dream. He appeared to be faithful to\n                  Virginia during her lifetime. \n                   Rufus Griswold said that Poe left\n                  a bushel basket of letters addressed to him by women.\n                  He, Griswold, returned \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet's letters to\n                  her. \n                   Thomas W. White distrusted Poe\n                  and was irritated by him. It was said that Poe had\n                  tried to seduce his stepmother, the second Mrs.\n                  Allan.","John Henry Hopkins has returned\n                  forty pages of her journal which contain Poe's\n                  accounts of having been wounded in a duel in a\n                  foreign port, of having written a sensational novel\n                  called \"Life of an Artist at Home and Abroad,\" which\n                  was later credited to \n                   Eugene Sue, and a poem called\n                  \"Humanity,\" credited to \n                   George Sand, and of having been\n                  nursed by a Scottish lady to whom he wrote a poem\n                  entitled \"Holy Eyes.\" He wrote \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" two months after Virginia's death. Poe\n                  said that his brother was a dashing cavalier with\n                  more of the \n                   Poe nature than he himself had.\n                  Mrs. Houghton is suspicious and antagonistic toward \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis.","Mrs. Whitman finds Ingram's article on the\n                  philosophy of handwriting very piquant and\n                  entertaining; his article on Poe in the March\n                  International will live while Poe's memory endures.\n                  She remarks that Ingram has found \n                   Mary Gove Nichols \"fanciful.\"","Long, Professor of Ancient Languages at the \n                   University of Virginia in 1826,\n                  vaguely remembers Poe as being \"not among the worst\n                  and among the best\" students. He remarks on the\n                  faculty-student trouble during the first year of the\n                  University. Mentions: \n                   William Wertenbaker, \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter, \n                   Henry Tutwiler, and \n                   Gessner Harrison.","Mrs. Houghton has sent copies of his works that\n                  Poe gave her. The miniature of his mother was left in\n                  his satchel on the \n                   Baltimore train. She had copied\n                  this miniature on ivory, and that copy is now in the\n                  possession of one of her children. Poe once attended\n                  church services with her. During the first part he\n                  followed the service and sang the psalms, but he\n                  became excited and rushed out. At the end of the\n                  service he reappeared. After that, he called on Dr. \n                   William Augustus Muhlenberg, the\n                  pastor. Mrs. Houghton offers to give \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman the jewel\n                  case that had belonged to Poe's mother.","Mrs. Whitman thinks Ingram's article on Poe in the\n                  Civil Service Review, ca. 1 April 1875, tears \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe to shreds, but she fears it will cause\n                  trouble, since Stoddard controls the New York\n                  Tribune. She feels, too, that Ingram has brought her\n                  too openly in conflict with Stoddard. The two\n                  parodies of \"The Bells\" were by different writers.\n                  Letter encloses Item 603, a tribute to the late\n                  Colonel \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight.","Responds to Ingram's interest in \n                   Poe genealogy. Poe says that there\n                  is no good reason to suppose that Edgar was descended\n                  from the \n                   De La Poers. Poe's brother was\n                  said to be a poet of genius. \n                   Maria Clemm was married only\n                  once. \n                   Virginia Clemm was born in \n                   Baltimore on 13 August 1822 and\n                  married Edgar on 16 March 1836.","Mrs. Houghton has sent Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe and a note from Poe to Virginia. She is moving\n                  from Flushing to Whitestone, Long Island.","Valentine declines either to give or to post\n                  Ingram's letter to Mrs. \n                   John Allan because the subject of\n                  Edgar is disagreeable to her. She has stated that she\n                  saw Poe only once or twice and that she did not know\n                  him when he called at the Allan house. Ingram's\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  been left where it can be sent to her.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story\n                  about \n                   Eliza White is without\n                  foundation. \n                   Paulina Davis told Mrs. Whitman\n                  of \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  admirably appointed water-cure establishment in upper\n                   New York. She suggests that\n                  Ingram consider carefully before reprinting the\n                  copies of Poe's letters sent by Mrs. Houghton because\n                  they lack his characteristic style.","Neal has given away his Poe autographed letters.\n                  He either never knew or has forgotten that Poe\n                  dedicated his Tamerlane to him. He wrote the first\n                  praise Poe received in a notice in the Yankee in\n                  September 1829 and wrote another notice in December\n                  quoting selected lines from Poe's poems.","William F. Gill has sent Mrs.\n                  Whitman a revised edition of his Lotos Leaves\n                  containing his article on Poe. She urges caution in\n                  Ingram's accepting as Poe's all that is sent to him\n                  as unpublished writings, especially \"copies.\"\n                  Something about the reported poem \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is \"not quite... vraisemblable.\"\n                  Mentions: unfavorable criticism of Ingram's Memoir in\n                  the Nation; \n                   Mary Gove Nichols being\n                  imaginative; \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris having sent to\n                  Ingram both the 1829 and the 1845 editions of Poe's\n                  poems; \n                   Anna Blackwell witnessing\n                  spiritualistic phenomena in the presence of Hume;\n                  Ingram's remark that \n                   George R. Graham's letters have\n                  replaced \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir in a new\n                  American edition of Poe's works.","Ingram is not to let the \n                   Poe family know that he has the\n                  miniature of \n                   Elizabeth Poe and is to try to\n                  get the one Poe had with him when he died. \n                   Maria Clemm burned a package of\n                  Mrs. Houghton's letters to Poe. Poe spent a year\n                  abroad and never betrayed his whereabouts to anyone.\n                  Only Virginia knew how he got the scar on his left\n                  shoulder. Mrs. Clemm used Mrs. Houghton only when she\n                  needed protection and money. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who sent her to\n                  visit the \n                   Poe family. Friends wondered that\n                  she was not afraid of Poe. Poe's cat (\"Caterina\")\n                  seemed to be possessed; it would not eat when he was\n                  absent and was found dead when Mrs. Clemm returned to\n                   Fordham for her last load of\n                  boxes. Mrs. Houghton says that she had promised \n                   Virginia Poe that she would\n                  listen patiently to Poe's lamentation, and Mrs. Clemm\n                  reproved her for indulging Poe in his fancies.\n                  Mentions: \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis being old and\n                  ugly, \n                   David Poe's faithfulness to his\n                  wife, Poe's belief that he owed his gifts of\n                  intellect and heart to his mother, and his statement\n                  that he had burned the sweetest poem he ever wrote in\n                  order to conciliate Mrs. Clemm and his father's\n                  family.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony says that \n                   Thomas Wyatt paid Poe for the use\n                  of his name as author of a book on conchology because\n                  he had been unable to sell his original book on the\n                  subject. \n                   Francis B. Davidge edited the\n                  Baltimore Minerva between 1830 and 1835. \n                   Eugene L. Didier of \n                   Baltimore is collecting materials\n                  and writing about Poe.","Valentine encloses an extract of a letter from Dr.\n                   Richard Carey Ambler of \n                   Richmond who swam with Poe in \n                   Shockoe Creek. Poe wrote a\n                  satire in verse on a debating society. \n                   Rosalie Poe gave a likeness of\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Claude Baxley. There was trouble\n                  between Poe and \n                   Thomas W. White about copy for\n                  the Southern Literary Messenger.","Ingram has been invited to the semi-centennial\n                  celebration of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  written to Mrs. Whitman protesting Ingram's crediting\n                   Sarah Anna Lewis with service\n                  which Mrs. Houghton had performed for the \n                   Poe family; Mrs. Whitman does not\n                  like the tone of the letter and thinks the \"Rival\n                  Queens\" might get Ingram into trouble. Mentions: \n                   Maria Clemm's long visits in the\n                  homes of the \n                   Lewis family and of Mrs. Houghton,\n                  Mrs. \n                   Mary Higgins Macready's claim\n                  that she received \"The Fire Fiend\" from Mrs. Clemm as\n                  an unpublished poem by Poe, and Ingram's review of \n                   Henry Curwen's Sorrow and\n                  Song.","Dodge offers to show Ingram a daguerreotype of\n                  Poe.","Samuel Stillman Osgood's\n                  portrait of Poe created the false impression of\n                  weakness in his mouth and chin. \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  about Poe's mendacity was in the Aldine in the spring\n                  of 1873. Mrs. Whitman quotes from Stoddard's letter\n                  to her apologizing for appearing to have discredited\n                  her statements in \n                   Edgar Poe and His Critics. She\n                  does not wish to be drawn into a conflict with him.\n                  Mrs. Whitman has received another letter from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton in\n                  which she makes \"rash charges\" against \n                   Maria Clemm and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. \n                   William F. Gill has asserted that\n                  he furnished Ingram with facts for his Memoir of\n                  Poe.","Mrs. Houghton thinks the MS. of \"The Beloved\n                  Physician\" is in a desk in Pierrepont Manor, 300\n                  miles away. Her son Henry says that Poe cut it down\n                  to nine stanzas for publication. She promises the MS.\n                  of the poem and a letter in which Poe mentions it for\n                  Ingram's use in his Memoir of Poe.","Rufus Griswold's last years were\n                  without dignity or happiness. \n                   Alice Cary, \n                   Mary E. Hewitt, and \n                   Mary Bean championed him; \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Ann S. Stephens, and \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet pursued him\n                  with malice. Poe lived unhappily with Mrs. Lewis for\n                  a part of one summer. He was not a lover in the\n                  common sense, for his feelings toward women were\n                  totally of an ideal kind. Mentions: \n                   Mary Gove Nichols, \n                   Eliza White, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Mrs. Whitman is pleased that Ingram is to visit\n                  the \n                   United States in the autumn. \n                   Jane E. Locke has been dead for\n                  many years; Poe was her guest in \n                   Lowell in the autumn of 1848, and\n                  it was she who introduced him to \n                   Annie Richmond. \n                   Anne Lynch Botta is eminently\n                  practical, enterprising, prudent, circumspect, and\n                  cautious.","Edward V. Valentine's recumbent\n                  statue of General Lee has been unveiled, and the\n                  public schools in Baltimore plan to erect a monument\n                  to Poe. \n                   Maria Clemm was one of those\n                  gentle, childlike, weak women whom you could not help\n                  loving but losing all patience with. However, a\n                  Southerner, remembering the war, must not speak ill\n                  of a Southern woman, for what they endured is beyond\n                  belief.","Valentine copies for Ingram a long account, almost\n                  certainly the joint work of Mrs. Ellis and \n                   Mary Jane Poitiaux Dixon of \n                   Richmond, which states that\n                  Poe's mother died in 1813, casts doubt upon \n                   Rosalie Poe's legitimacy, and\n                  claims that Poe was a mischievous youth, that he ran\n                  up debts in \n                   Charlottesville for champagne and\n                  broadcloth coats which he later gambled away, and\n                  that he attempted to force his way into \n                   John Allan's sickroom. \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton was\n                  engaged to marry Poe in 1849, and she gave him money\n                  to bear his expenses to \n                   Baltimore. Valentine repeats a\n                  rumor that Elizabeth Poe died in a poorhouse. He also\n                  sends a copy of her obituary in the Richmond\n                  Enquirer, 10 December 1811.","As a youth Poe wrote doggerel lines and was adept\n                  in athletic sports. He told her on his last visit to \n                   Richmond that he had written \"The\n                  Raven\" while on the verge of delirium tremens. He had\n                  been alternately petted and punished in his early\n                  life.","Professor \n                   J. A. Anthony has learned that\n                  for the abridgment of The Conchologist's First Book\n                  the name of \"some irresponsible person\" was needed\n                  whom it would be idle to sue for damages. Poe was\n                  selected and paid for the use of his name.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  reported to be denying that she was either engaged to\n                  marry Poe or that she wore mourning after his death. \n                   Thomas Bolling of \n                   Nelson County, VA, has written\n                  that Poe was an excellent athlete, that he used his\n                  fine talent for drawing by filling the space in his\n                  dormitory room at the \n                   University of Virginia and by\n                  copying a life-sized drawing of Byron on the ceiling,\n                  and that he also had a habit of listening to a\n                  conversation and dividing his mind by writing sense\n                  on a different subject. Copies of Al Aaraaf were on\n                  sale in a \n                   Richmond bookstore.","William Gilmore Simms' novel\n                  Beauchampe was based on an account of an actual\n                  execution found in \n                   Lewis Collins' History of\n                  Kentucky (Covington, 1874) 1: 32.","Mrs. Whitman discusses daguerreotypes of Poe made\n                  in Providence in 1848. She understands that Ingram\n                  has discouraged her from detailing for him any more\n                  of her personal experiences with Poe because she does\n                  not wish them to be published. She assures Ingram\n                  that she is profoundly interested in his work and\n                  that she has genuine personal sympathy and\n                  affectionate regard for him. Mentions: \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard as the\n                  author of those \"dastardly articles\" in the Round\n                  Table, the MS. of the second \"To Helen\" that she had\n                  sent to Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan for a\n                  psychometric reading, an article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly for July, and how she is sometimes\n                  \"very anxious\" to escape \"this fever called\n                  living.\"","Mrs. Whitman thinks that the article on Poe in the\n                  British Quarterly is the best critique on his life\n                  and genius that she has seen, and she anxiously\n                  inquires the name of the author. [Dr. \n                   Alexander Hay Japp had written\n                  the article.] Mrs. Whitman expresses her doubt of the\n                  good will of Poe's relatives. Ingram adds a note:\n                  \"Original to Dr. Japp, 2/3/80.\"","Browne asks whether \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson would write\n                  a poem or a few verses for reading at the ceremony\n                  when Poe's monument is unveiled. Poe loved Virginia\n                  and was faithful to her, although his dangerous power\n                  over women subjected him to great temptations. \n                   Rufus Griswold married for money,\n                  divorced, and remarried, but the decree of divorce\n                  was reversed, and he was sued for bigamy, but he died\n                  before the suit came to trial. Poe's criticism of \n                   Richard Henry Horne's Orion was\n                  careless and full of errors.","Mrs. Oakes Smith requests the return of her MS.\n                  article on Poe. She says that \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, who is not\n                  to be trusted, gave \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis \"a blighting\n                  name.\" Mentions Mrs. Lewis' drama Sappho.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Eugene L. Didier's publication\n                  of \"Alone\" in Scribner's for September, as a\n                  facsimile of a poem by Poe, an audacious forgery,\n                  although the poem itself might be readily accepted as\n                  genuine. [See Item 611.] She discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe, \"A Mad Man of Letters,\" in Scribner's\n                  for October. Mrs. Whitman shares Ingram's lack of\n                  confidence in \n                   Neilson Poe. Mentions: \n                   William F. Gill, \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard, \n                   Thomas C. Clarke.","Valentine has seen that day a daguerreotype of Poe\n                  which possibly had belonged to \n                   Rosalie Poe. He encloses some\n                  blades of grass from Poe's grave and will give Ingram\n                  a cane when he visits \n                   Richmond.","John Poe is unable to answer Ingram's questions\n                  about \n                   Edgar Poe and the persons\n                  connected with him. There is no prospect of\n                  recovering verses by Poe's brother, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, which\n                  were said to have great merit.","William Hand Browne believes that\n                  all Americans owe Ingram a debt of gratitude for the\n                  disinterested zeal he has shown in clearing Poe's\n                  memory from the fiendish malice of \n                   Rufus Griswold and his followers.\n                  Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's which\n                  claimed that Poe suffered from cerebral epilepsy will\n                  soon be printed in the New York Tribune, according to\n                  the editor, \n                   Whitelaw Reid. She thinks that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard has a\n                  purchase on the Tribune. Mrs. Whitman comments upon \n                   William J. Widdleton's\n                  willingness to preface his next edition of Poe's\n                  poems with Ingram's Memoir, upon \n                   J. S. Redfield's 1858 edition of\n                  Poe's poems, followed by the small Blue and Gold\n                  edition, having an \"Original Memoir\" which claimed\n                  that \"Annabel Lee\" was addressed to Mrs. Whitman, and\n                  upon Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous, who lectured\n                  on Poe to raise money for Rosalie, having drowned\n                  near \n                   Brooklyn under somewhat\n                  mysterious circumstances.","Mrs. Whitman discusses at length \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article on Poe as a madman that was published in\n                  Scribner's. She is surprised to learn that \n                   William F. Gill has published,\n                  garbled and without her authority, versions of Poe's\n                  letters she loaned to him. Mentions: \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Chauncy Burr, and gross\n                  insinuations that were made regarding Poe's relations\n                  with \n                   Maria Clemm.","Susan Archer Talley Weiss and Mr.\n                  Tyler of \n                   Richmond promise to give\n                  Valentine their recollections of Poe. It was at the\n                  home of the latter that Poe took tea the night he\n                  joined the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division of the Sons of\n                  Temperance.","Mrs. Whitman's article in reply to \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield has been\n                  endorsed in the New York Tribune on 18 October by\n                  Drs. \n                   Abraham H. Okie and \n                   Frederick K. Marvin. She\n                  mentions \n                   William F. Gill's articles about\n                  Poe in his volumes Lotos Leaves and Laurel\n                  Leaves.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is very\n                  imaginative and that her article on Poe in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867 is of no value. She relates\n                  stories of Poe's meeting and visiting \n                   Jane E. Locke and \n                   Annie Richmond in \n                   Lowell, MA, and of her own\n                  association with Mrs. Locke. She gives a lengthy\n                  account of Poe's urging her to an immediate marriage,\n                  of his taking laudanum and his ensuing illness, and\n                  of his return to \n                   Providence and the prolonged\n                  distressing scenes at her mother's house. She\n                  discusses the daguerreotype of Poe made in \n                   Providence after a night of wild\n                  excesses.","Mrs. Whitman requests the return of the MS. of\n                  Poe's second \"To Helen,\" which was submitted to him\n                  by \n                   Eliab Wilkinson Capron in the\n                  summer of 1855 or 1856 for a psychometric\n                  reading.","Poe's views in Eureka are supported in a recent\n                  paper by \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor,\n                  \"Leverrier's Balance.\" Colonel \n                   John Thomas Scharf is sending\n                  Ingram a copy of his Chronicles of Baltimore.","Mrs. Whitman hopes she may live to receive \n                   Stephane Mallarme's promised\n                  copy of Le Corbeau; she will present it to the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library when\n                  she dies, and there it will be embalmed forever.\n                  Everyone thinks she \"used up\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield in her\n                  published reply to his article about Poe having\n                  cerebral epilepsy. She has been invited to attend the\n                  ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in \n                   Baltimore or to send something to\n                  be read on that occasion. \n                   William F. Gill is to be the\n                  orator at the ceremonies. \n                   Marie Louise Shew was married to\n                  Dr. \n                   Roland Houghton in November\n                  1850.","A monument has been placed over Poe's grave. Miss\n                  Rice will send newspaper accounts of the scheduled\n                  unveiling ceremonies. These courtesies are in\n                  recognition of Ingram's edition of Poe's works.","Dodge grants Ingram permission to use his\n                  daguerreotype of Poe when and how he pleases.","Neal does not remember the \"Stylus\" and is unable\n                  to verify dates for Ingram.","J. J. Poe gives Ingram genealogical information\n                  about the \n                   Poe family in \n                   Ireland and inquires about the\n                  American branch, particularly \n                   Edgar Poe's immediate\n                  family.","Miss Rice asks Ingram's permission to use his\n                  Memoir of Poe to preface the proposed memorial volume\n                  of the dedication ceremonies to be held at the\n                  unveiling of Poe's monument.","Valentine encloses five pages of notes he took the\n                  day before as \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton gave\n                  him an account of her early engagement to Poe and of\n                  their last meeting in \n                   Richmond. She denied that she\n                  was engaged to marry Poe or that she wore mourning\n                  for him.","Mrs. Whitman copies for Ingram \n                   John S. Hart's published letter\n                  in the New York Tribune, 17 November 1875, in which\n                  he relates the histories of the publication in\n                  Sartain's Magazine of \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee.\"\n                  She praises \n                   William Winter's poem that was\n                  read at the Poe monument unveiling ceremonies. Poe\n                  had spoken to her of \n                   Sarah J. Hale's kindness and\n                  liberality to him; Mrs. Hale had published some of\n                  Mrs. Whitman's early poems in The Ladies' Wreath in\n                  1837. As her death approaches, Mrs. Whitman feels\n                  less sensitive about her personal relations with Poe\n                  being revealed and is now willing to copy for Ingram\n                  or to show to him if he comes to \n                   America the letters from Poe\n                  which she has held back. Professor \n                   Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has\n                  replied that he cannot find her MS. of Poe's second\n                  \"To Helen\"; he thought he had returned it to her.","Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton has\n                  told Valentine that \n                   Ebenezer Burling was a youthful\n                  friend of Poe, that there was a \"partial\n                  understanding,\" but no engagement, between her and\n                  Poe when he left \n                   Richmond in 1849, that Poe drew\n                  beautifully, once sketching a likeness of her in a\n                  few minutes, and that he was fond of music.","Mrs. Whitman is sending Ingram newsclippings from \n                   New York and \n                   Baltimore papers about the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies. \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis is not accurate\n                  in his remarks about \n                   Maria Clemm living in his home\n                  from 1849 to 1856, for she spent several of those\n                  years with \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton and \n                   Annie Richmond.","William F. Gill's part in the\n                  Poe monument ceremonies consisted only in his\n                  reciting \"The Raven.\" \n                   Annie Richmond is still alive.\n                  Mrs. Whitman offers corrections for Ingram's\n                  quotation in his International Review article\n                  concerning the lines Poe had pencilled about the\n                  second \"To Helen\" in the margin of her copy of his\n                  Broadway Journal.","Enclosed in Item 340. Mrs. Whitman learned from \n                   Sallie E. Robins of Ohio that Poe\n                  was born in 1809; this information has come from Dr. \n                   Socrates Maupin and \n                   William Wertenbaker of the \n                   University of Virginia. \n                   Maria Clemm had once written to\n                  Mrs. Whitman that Poe could never remember dates and\n                  had to apply to her; it is possible that it was she\n                  who told him he was two years younger than he\n                  imagined, for Poe would not consciously have\n                  misrepresented his age. The portrait of Poe in \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's article\n                  in Harper's does not resemble either of the two\n                  daguerreotypes of him that were taken in \n                   Providence. Mrs. Whitman shares \n                   George W. Eveleth's doubt that\n                  Poe \"habitually\" resorted to intoxicating liquors.\n                  She thinks that Ingram admits too much in his\n                  references to this subject and that he will see\n                  \"occasion\" to qualify his statements.","Tutwiler knew Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia as\n                  belonging to a set of wild and dissipated students.\n                  He encloses extracts from a letter from \n                   Robert M. T. Hunter to him in\n                  which Hunter wrote on 20 May 1875 that Poe's habits\n                  were bad when he worked on the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger and that he was reckless about money and\n                  drinking, although not in the habit of drinking\n                  constantly. Hunter remembers that Poe gave strict\n                  attention to metre and quantity in Professor \n                   George Long's class at the\n                  University.","Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published account of Poe's last moments should be\n                  taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne\n                  relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle\n                  played on a volunteer company of Germans in \n                   Baltimore. \n                   James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who\n                  knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt\n                  cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to\n                  die.","J. J. Poe appreciates the genealogical information\n                  Ingram has sent him about the American branch of the \n                   Poe family.","Mrs. Whitman has received Ingram's valuable paper\n                  on Poe's \"Politian\" published in the London Magazine.\n                  Harper's Weekly (dated 11 December, though issued 7\n                  December) has a copy of a daguerreotype of Poe taken\n                  ten days before his death. It is the best Mrs.\n                  Whitman has seen because it has more of his habitual\n                  and characteristic expression than any other. \n                   William D. O'Connor, who has an\n                  affectionate interest in Ingram and his proposed\n                  biography of Poe, still intends to \"pitch into\" \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield himself\n                  and has given Mrs. Whitman an intensely amusing\n                  account of \n                   William F. Gill's reciting \"The\n                  Raven\" at the Poe monument dedication ceremonies.\n                  Mrs. Whitman encloses a newsclipping story about\n                  Poe's mother having been a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold, who was a\n                  kinsman of Mrs. Whitman's maternal grandmother, \n                   Mary Arnold Wilkinson.","Parker furnishes Ingram with details of \n                   William L. Didier's having\n                  published a facsimile of a poem entitled \"Alone,\"\n                  which he claims was written by Poe. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman returns Ingram's paper on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  article about Poe, which the New York Tribune has\n                  refused to print.","Because \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard keeps\n                  silent after Ingram's attacks, Mrs. Whitman suggests\n                  that now is a good time for Ingram to say publicly\n                  that \n                   Samuel Kettell's Specimens of\n                  American Poetry does list Tamerlane and Other Poems,\n                  undoubtedly Poe's suppressed volume of 1827.","Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume is dedicated to Mrs. Whitman because Ingram's\n                  Memoir of Poe which prefixes it was dedicated to\n                  her.","William J. Widdleton has inserted\n                  in his publisher's preparatory notice to the volume\n                  about the Poe memorial ceremonies a statement that \"a\n                  considerable portion\" of Ingram's Memoir reprinted\n                  there was \"gathered\" from materials previously used\n                  by \n                   William F. Gill in his lecture\n                  written in 1873. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written Mrs.\n                  Whitman that it was at his own request that Gill read\n                  or recited \"The Raven\" at the Baltimore\n                  ceremonies.","An acquaintance recalls an old-fashioned chest in\n                  his home which contained chatty, smart, entertaining\n                  letters from the \n                   Allan s and Miss \n                   Nancy Valentine written from \n                   London to \n                   Edward Valentine's mother. There\n                  was much in these letters about \n                   Edgar Poe, and the friend will\n                  try to find if these letters survive.","This is possibly the poem Mallarme sent to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Evert Duyckinck wrote on 25\n                  January 1875 that his acquaintance with Poe was\n                  almost entirely a business-literary one and that he\n                  always found Poe to be a polished, courteous\n                  gentleman, refined and fastidious in his manner.\n                  Davidson encloses to Ingram a one-page biographical\n                  sketch of \n                   Park Benjamin.","Elizabeth Oakes Smith seemed to\n                  credit the story of Poe's mother being a daughter of \n                   Benedict Arnold when she told it\n                  to Mrs. Whitman while they were on a trip to the\n                  mountains in 1858. Mrs. Whitman is glad to know that\n                  Ingram has heard from \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. \n                   William F. Gill has published\n                  portions of letters from Poe to Mrs. Whitman in the\n                  Daily Graphic. \n                   Sara S. Rice has confided that\n                  Gill persuaded President \n                   William Elliot, Jr., to allow\n                  him to read \"The Raven\" at the Poe monument\n                  dedication ceremonies.","Vorner is pleased to report that Ingram's four\n                  volumes of Poe's works will be placed in the \n                   Philadelphia Exhibition, as\n                  requested.","Mrs. Whitman is profoundly grieved and surprised\n                  at the tone of Ingram's letter of 13 January. She\n                  denies that she was in any way responsible for \n                   William F. Gill's published\n                  claim that Ingram was indebted to him for materials\n                  he used in his Memoir of Poe; she has given nothing\n                  to Gill since Ingram's first letter to her in 1873. \n                   William J. Widdleton possibly had\n                  pecuniary reasons for inserting the statement. Mrs.\n                  Whitman reminds Ingram that she warned him how\n                  difficult his task would be and repeatedly urged him\n                  to curb his impetuous spirit and not to believe every\n                  new story or to resent every suspected wrong or\n                  insult. Although Ingram now has decided to wipe his\n                  hands of all Northerners and to give up his work on\n                  Poe, Mrs. Whitman will not cease to care for his\n                  prosperity and success in any new literary enterprise\n                  to which he may devote his genius and talents. The\n                  Scribner's facsimile poem published by \n                   Eugene L. Didier was written in\n                  the album of \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, the wife\n                  of Judge \n                   Isaiah Balderston. [See Item\n                  611.]","Mrs. Whitman \"had no idea\" that her criticisms of\n                  Ingram's publications wounded his \"feelings\" or\n                  transgressed \"the critical license\" he had invited.\n                  Poe was not a Sir Galahad, but his faults were not of\n                  a nature to alienate her love and loyalty. She\n                  believes she has dealt fairly with both \n                   William F. Gill and Ingram. The\n                  latter's remark that his Southern correspondents were\n                  strictly honorable in answering questions only when\n                  they were certain implies that his Northern\n                  correspondents willfully misled him. Is this so?","George R. Graham was ousted from\n                  his business by his two clerks and died a \"low\n                  `bummer.\" [Graham, in fact, died in 1894.]","Having read \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\" to\n                  Ingram's \"Disclaimer,\" Mrs. Whitman is not so\n                  surprised at the aggressive tone of Ingram's last two\n                  letters to her. She quotes praise of his work written\n                  by \n                   William D. O'Connor to \n                   Sara S. Rice. Mrs. Whitman\n                  copies for Ingram her letter to Gill of 26 February\n                  1876, in which she informed Gill that she read his\n                  \"Reply\" with \"regret \u0026 amazement\" and that she\n                  thinks he should have abandoned his untenable claim\n                  that Ingram had used materials about Poe which had\n                  been \"assigned\" to Gill. She reprimanded Gill for\n                  having invited false inferences by quoting\n                  incorrectly from letters to her from Poe.","William F. Gill's evasive answer\n                  to her letter of 26 February now matters little\n                  because his creditors, having consented to accept\n                  thirteen cents on the dollar, have learned that he\n                  withheld $60,000 of his assets, and they intend to\n                  hold him to strict account. The publisher's pamphlet\n                  in which Gill inserted his \"Reply\" to Ingram has\n                  little circulation, and if Gill returns to the charge\n                  against her of having violated the international\n                  copyright law, she will meet him herself.","Browne and \n                   Sara S. Rice plan to use a\n                  daguerreotype of Poe taken in \n                   Richmond and never before printed\n                  as the frontispiece of the memorial volume of the Poe\n                  monument dedication ceremonies which is now being\n                  prepared.","William J. Widdleton has recently\n                  issued a new volume of Poe's poems, using as an\n                  Introduction \n                   William F. Gill's Lotos Leaves\n                  article; and \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith has\n                  republished a portion of her article on Poe in the\n                  Home Journal, Wednesday, 15 March, in which she\n                  repeats her charge of Poe's insincerity and mentions\n                  his \"myriad little loves.\" Poe admired \n                   Ross Wallace's poetry. Mrs.\n                  Whitman assures Ingram that she has been \"perfectly\n                  sincere\" with him \"about Gill,\" that she has never\n                  wavered in her loyalty to him \"as a trusted friend,\"\n                  and that she has never spoken of him and his work on\n                  Poe in any way other than that in which he would have\n                  liked. Mrs. Whitman is glad that Ingram found\n                  \"Siope.\"","Ingram's \"Rejoinder\" to \n                   William F. Gill's \"Reply\"\n                  punishes Gill for using material Mrs. Whitman had\n                  expressly forbidden him to publish and for not\n                  submitting to her the MS. of his Lotos Leaves\n                  article. Mrs. Whitman alludes to Ingram's having\n                  found a copy of Poe's Tamerlane and his plans to\n                  publish an article on the suppressed poems. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris will pay more\n                  than any other purchaser if the owner of the copy\n                  will sell. A scandalous paragraph attributed to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith is going\n                  the rounds of the press saying that Poe's death was\n                  caused by a beating he received from the friend of a\n                  woman whom he had deceived and betrayed. Mrs. Whitman\n                  urges Ingram to ask Mrs. Smith to confirm or to deny\n                  this story.","Mrs. Whitman is very anxious to know on what\n                  authority Ingram says that Poe's second \"To Helen\"\n                  was first published in Sartain's Union Magazine and\n                  not Graham's Magazine. Professor \n                   William Whitman Bailey, who knew\n                   Richard Henry Stoddard when he\n                  was editor of the Aldine, presented Mrs. Whitman with\n                  a spray of arbutus, and she encloses a copy of the\n                  poem she wrote to him to show her gratitude. Bailey\n                  shares her and Ingram's opinions of Stoddard's\n                  unquestionable hatred of Poe. Mrs. Whitman believes\n                  that \n                   George Parsons Lathrop is in\n                  league with Poe's enemies and has taken opportunity\n                  to assail Poe behind \"the flimsy mantle\" of \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield.","At Ingram's request, Perry has searched the files\n                  of the Home Journal for printings of Poe's poems. He\n                  encloses a newsclipping in which \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss denies \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's story of\n                  Poe having been beaten to death.","Ingram's challenge to Mrs. Whitman's statement\n                  that the second \"To Helen\" first appeared in Graham's\n                  Magazine in the autumn of 1848 \"is not a trivial\n                  matter.\" She thinks that he has not dealt frankly\n                  with her on this subject and that he is withholding\n                  his reasons for calling her to question. \n                   Stephane Mallarme has had a copy\n                  of Le Corbeau made for Mrs. Whitman as a present. \n                   Sara S. Rice has written that \n                   Eugene L. Didier, her close\n                  friend, proposes to prepare a life of Poe and would\n                  be glad to be of service to Mrs. Whitman. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris advises that\n                  Ingram print the twenty-seven poems in Tamerlane\n                  without letting it be known where the copy is or that\n                  it was signed \"By a Bostonian.\" He also thinks that\n                  Ingram might find something of interest in a pamphlet\n                  entitled \"The Musiad or Ninead, by Diabolus.\"","Browne has seen the eight-page pamphlet in the \n                   Maryland Historical Society\n                  Library entitled \"'The Musiad or Ninead,'\n                  by Diabolus. Published by Mr. Baltimore, 1830.\" He\n                  thinks it might have been written by Poe, since it is\n                  much in his style. Browne has located for Ingram\n                  copies of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for January\n                  to July 1840.","Both Mrs. Whitman and Ingram have been mistaken\n                  about the identity of the magazine in which Poe's\n                  second \"To Helen\" made its first appearance, and she\n                  makes an effort to establish renewed faith and trust\n                  between herself and Ingram. \n                   William J. Widdelton wants \n                   Eugene L. Didier's MS. of his\n                  biography of Poe by July. Mentions: Ingram's article,\n                  \"The Unknown Poetry of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the Belgravia\n                  magazine for June 1876; his continued ill health and\n                  troubles, and the alarming increase in her sister's\n                  insanity.","Mrs. Whitman thinks that Poe's note on cowardice\n                  in \"Marginalia\" which Ingram wants to suppress is\n                  absurd but hardly \"hateful.\" It was, she believes,\n                  intended as a play on words. \"In all matters not\n                  affecting important truths,\" however, she is heartily\n                  in favor of suppressing whatever seems to an editor\n                  irrelevant or likely to injure the reputation of his\n                  subject. \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris is surprised\n                  that Poe's first \"To Helen\" was not included in\n                  Tamerlane. All of Ingram's discoveries about the\n                  order of Poe's prose articles, stories, and poems are\n                  intensely interesting to her. \n                   Eugene L. Didier thinks the long\n                  letter about Poe which Mrs. Whitman wrote to him at\n                  his request will have great weight in disproving\n                  scandals about him, if it is published exactly as she\n                  wrote it. Mrs. Whitman is sure that her treatment of\n                  the subject will interest Ingram and meet with his\n                  cordial approval. His article on Poe's early poems\n                  has been reprinted in the New York Daily Graphic\n                  sometime in June or July of 1876.","Enclosed in Item 299. Mrs. Oakes Smith denies that\n                  she wrote the story about Poe's having been beaten to\n                  death by the friend of a lady whom he had deceived\n                  and betrayed.","Since receiving Ingram's letter in June, Mrs.\n                  Richmond has been trying to recover from \n                   William F. Gill the MS. of a\n                  sketch of Poe. She cannot let her letters from Poe\n                  out of her keeping, but if Ingram comes to see her\n                  she will place them at his disposal. She believes the\n                  letters to be without parallel in the annals of love\n                  and shrinks from allowing the purity of them to be\n                  revealed to other eyes, but for the sake of refuting\n                  the calumnies that have been heaped on Poe through\n                  jealousy and envy, she is willing that Ingram use\n                  them.","Mrs. Richmond encloses copies of her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" and Poe's letter of 23 November 1848, to \n                   Sarah Heywood. [For the text of\n                  Poe's letter see Letters, 2: 405-406].","Mrs. Whitman has received a copy of Ingram's\n                  article, \"The Bibliography of \n                   Edgar Poe \" in the London\n                  Athenaeum, 19 August 1876. After a silence of ten or\n                  twelve years, she has written to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith to say that\n                  she has not hesitated to deny that Mrs. Oakes Smith\n                  was the author of a personal assault on Poe. Mrs.\n                  Oakes Smith has replied in a postcard and two \"most\n                  kind\" letters. \n                   William F. Gill has achieved\n                  notoriety by sliding down a ravine in the \n                   White Mountains. To Mrs.\n                  Whitman, Gill is like the \"missing link\" or the \"Lost\n                  Pleiad.\"","Mrs. Richmond encloses a \"small portion\" of her\n                  letters from Poe, trusting to Ingram's honor that\n                  neither the living nor the dead shall ever suffer in\n                  consequence. She will send to Ingram copies of\n                  pictures of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm. She was unable to\n                  see Mrs. Clemm during her last illness, but would be\n                  glad to regain possession of Poe's letters to her\n                  which Mrs. Clemm had. Poe sent or gave to her MS.\n                  copies of \"The Bells,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream.\"","Mrs. Richmond has mailed a package containing\n                  letters from Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm as well as a\n                  photographs of both. Ingram may keep the pictures,\n                  and if this package reaches him safely, she will send\n                  more letters or copies. Poe told her little of his\n                  early history, but Mrs. Clemm cared to talk of\n                  nothing else when she had an attentive listener. Mrs.\n                  Richmond regrets that she cannot be certain about\n                  dates and names, but she is thankful to know that at\n                  last justice will be done to Poe's dear memory.","The \"advisers\" of \n                   Sara S. Rice want \n                   William D. O'Connor to modify\n                  some of the things he said [about \n                   Walt Whitman ] in the article he\n                  submitted for the Poe memorial volume. \n                   Annie Richmond's letters to \n                   Maria Clemm, which were passed\n                  on to Mrs. Whitman, convinced Mrs. Whitman of Mrs.\n                  Richmond's fidelity to Poe's memory, and Mrs. Whitman\n                  is glad to know that Ingram has received from Mrs.\n                  Richmond a gracious tribute to Poe's \"genuine\n                  goodness of heart \u0026 character.\" Mentions: \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir\"\n                  being scheduled to preface the Household Edition of\n                  Poe's poems; Ingram's saying that he has in his\n                  possession the MS. of \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  paragraph about Poe's violent death; \n                   Robert T. P. Allen's article in\n                  Scribner's, November 1875, about Poe's having worked\n                  in a Baltimore brickyard in 1834; and \n                   William F. Gill's having written\n                  to Mrs. Whitman two letters within one week after a\n                  year's silence.","Poe told Mrs. Whitman of his intention to write a\n                  pendant to his \"The Domain of Arnheim.\" The things\n                  Ingram writes to Mrs. Whitman about \"Landor's\n                  Cottage\" convinces her that Ingram was \"destined\" to\n                  the work which he is \"so effectually performing.\" \n                   Stephane Mallarme wishes to\n                  dedicate to her his volume of translations of Poe's\n                  poems. She has related to Mallarme \"all\" that Poe\n                  said to her about \"Ulalume.\" Her feeling now is that\n                  Poe's omitting of the closing stanza of \"Ulalume\" at\n                  her request was a mistake because the stanza \"is\n                  necessary to the comprehension of the poem.\" Mrs.\n                  Whitman tells Ingram of Poe's reading of \"Ulalume\" to\n                  her in the \n                   Providence Athenaeum Library and\n                  then signing the bound volume of the American Whig\n                  Review, in which it had first appeared. \n                   William F. Gill informs Mrs.\n                  Whitman that he proposes to publish a volume on Poe,\n                  and Mrs. Whitman has insisted that Gill show her\n                  proofs of anything of hers that he uses or anything\n                  that he writes relating to her. Gill wanted \n                   William J. Widdleton to publish\n                  his things together with \n                   Eugene L. Didier's, but Didier\n                  would not consent. Mentions: Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  copies made from them, \n                   Mary Osborne, Ingram's obituary\n                  of \n                   John Neal, and \n                   Mary Gove Nichol's\n                  \"Reminiscences of Poe.\"","Only the intense desire to have full justice done\n                  to Poe's memory could have tempted Mrs. Richmond to\n                  put her correspondence with Poe in Ingram's hands,\n                  but she is certain he will not allow it to be made\n                  public. Her remaining letters from Poe are so\n                  personal and contain so few allusions \"to matters\n                  that would interest\" Ingram, she is not sure that\n                  copying them would be worthwhile, but if Ingram comes\n                  to America, she will place the originals in his\n                  hands. She is surprised to learn that her MS. copy of\n                  \"The Bells\" is not the original one, for Poe copied\n                  it while at her house and left her what she thought\n                  was the first copy. One very valuable letter of Poe's\n                  belonging to her was in \n                   Maria Clemm's possession.","The proofs of \n                   William F. Gill's volume on Poe\n                  are at hand and are a curious melange mostly of\n                  things heretofore published, the \"profoundly\n                  interesting\" exception being \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe.\"","Miss Heywood introduces \n                   Franklin E. Brown, who will hand\n                  Ingram a package containing an early edition of Poe's\n                  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 2 volumes,\n                  which were found in the trunk belonging to Poe that\n                  was forwarded to \n                   Maria Clemm at \n                   Lowell soon after his death.","Eugene L. Didier writes in his\n                  \"Memoir\" that Poe's mother had been twice married and\n                  that she and Poe's father died in the Richmond\n                  theater fire. Ingram is to be very careful not to\n                  allow \n                   Maria Clemm's letters, which\n                  have Mrs. Whitman's marginal comments, to pass into\n                  other hands. To her surprise, Mrs. Whitman's letter\n                  to Didier about Poe is printed as an \"Introductory\n                  Letter\" in his volume which she will send to Ingram\n                  if he wants it. Baltimoreans seem greatly pleased\n                  over Ingram's \"Memoir\" as he prepared it for the\n                  memorial volume which \n                   Sara S. Rice has edited. Mrs.\n                  Whitman urges Ingram to change the words \"fierce\n                  flame\" as describing the interest she first aroused\n                  in Poe because at that time \n                   Virginia Poe was still alive.\n                  \"But there is nothing of earthly passion in the poem\n                  he sent me --is there?\"","Mrs. Richmond is willing to answer Ingram's\n                  questions about Poe and is thankful for the romance\n                  which found its way into the web and woof of her\n                  early life and for the sweet memories that brighten\n                  its present day.","Mrs. Whitman discusses Poe daguerreotypes and\n                  photographs taken from them. \n                   William F. Gill has been burned\n                  out; consequently, the publication of his biography\n                  of Poe will be delayed. Mrs. Whitman will send a copy\n                  of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's new biography\n                  of Poe to Ingram by the next day's steamer.","Mrs. Richmond copies for Ingram Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman of 25 January\n                  1849 [Item 55]. She encloses a note from \n                   Charles Dickens' agent which had\n                  accompanied a sum of money sent to \n                   Maria Clemm by Dickens. \"Mr. Poe\n                  as a Cryptographer\" was written by Reverend \n                   Warren A. Cudworth of \n                   East Boston.","A Boston Theatre advertisement in the Centinel, 18\n                  April 1809, lists Mrs. Poe as playing Amelia in The\n                  Robbers and as Ella in \n                   James Kenney's Ella Rosenbery.\n                  This was the benefit night for the Poes. \n                   David Poe's part is not\n                  listed.","Mrs. Richmond will search in \n                   Boston for a file of the Flag of\n                  Our Union and for a number of Graham's which Ingram\n                  needs. She sends all of the letters she received from\n                   Maria Clemm before Poe's death;\n                  Ingram need not return them. Two or three of Poe's\n                  letters to Mrs. Richmond are missing. When Mrs. Clemm\n                  visited \n                   Lowell she had access to them,\n                  and after she left they were missing. Later, Mrs.\n                  Clemm borrowed a letter that never was returned,\n                  though she said that she had sent it back. Mrs.\n                  Richmond met \n                   William F. Gill through a friend\n                  who had urged her to help him prepare a lecture on\n                  Poe, and when Gill went to \n                   Baltimore, he borrowed her MS.\n                  copy of \"The Bells\" so that he might read it there\n                  with more effect. She is enthusiastic about Ingram's\n                  work and is sure that it will be a complete and\n                  thorough vindication of that \"dear and tenderly\n                  cherished name.\"","Mrs. Whitman compares \"vraisemblance\" in\n                  portraits, daguerreotypes, and photographs of Poe.\n                  She has heard nothing lately about \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe. \n                   Julian Hawthorne is incensed over\n                   George P. Lathrop's publication\n                  of \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne's private\n                  journal. After \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  noble rebuke of \n                   Thomas Carlyle's barbarous and\n                  brutal policy, will Carlyle not wear sackcloth and\n                  ashes the rest of his dishonored days? Mrs. Whitman\n                  has at last received her copy of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's Le Corbeau\n                  but finds some of \n                   Edouard Manet's illustrations\n                  beyond the range of her appreciation.","If Ingram wishes, Mrs. Richmond will cut an\n                  article on secret writing and two chapters of\n                  \"Autography\" for Ingram from bound volumes of\n                  Graham's for 1841 and 1842. She is unable to answer\n                  definitely many of Ingram's questions, for she did\n                  not comprehend the rare opportunities she had when\n                  Poe talked because wonder and admiration completely\n                  absorbed her. As he related them, the events of his\n                  life had a flavor of unreality, just like his\n                  stories.","Miss Blackwell denies that Ingram could possibly\n                  have a copy of a letter written to her by Poe because\n                  she had never received one from him. She remembers\n                  that she visited the \n                   Poe s at \n                   Fordham in company with someone\n                  whose name she now does not recall to deliver a\n                  basket of delicacies suitable for an invalid and that\n                  Poe had returned that visit. She will not permit\n                  Ingram to use her name in connection with the letter\n                  or with anything he is writing about Poe. [For a\n                  complete text of Poe's letter to Miss Blackwell,\n                  written from Fordham on 14 June 1848, see Letters 2:\n                  369-371. \n                   Anna Blackwell herself gave this\n                  letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman. ]","All that Mrs. Whitman has written Ingram about \n                   Anna Blackwell she learned from\n                  the lady herself. It was \n                   Mary Gove Nichols who advised \n                   Anna Blackwell to board at the\n                  Poe cottage for a few weeks of country air and rest\n                  from her literary labors. After Miss Blackwell had\n                  given her Poe's letter, Mrs. Whitman gave it to the\n                  Hon. \n                   John Russell Bartlett of \n                   Providence for his valuable\n                  collection of autographs, and it was he who had\n                  allowed her to make the copy which she sent to\n                  Ingram. Mrs. Whitman is deeply wounded by the tone of\n                  Ingram's letter to her and by his disposition to\n                  cross-examine her testimony so peremptorily. She is\n                  not aware that \n                   Eugene L. Didier has ever spoken\n                  an unkind word about Ingram, and she wonders why they\n                  should be enemies.","The inclusion of Ingram's \"noble\" \"Memoir\" has\n                  rendered the Poe memorial volume an \"angel of\n                  reparation.\"","The files of the Flag of Our Union and some of\n                  Poe's MSS. were destroyed by fire in 1872 or 1873,\n                  but Mrs. Richmond knows where there is a collection\n                  of Graham's and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and if\n                  the numbers Ingram wants are among them they will be\n                  forwarded. The gossip connected with Poe and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, relayed\n                  from \n                   Providence by Mr. Richmond's\n                  family, came close to putting to an end her\n                  correspondence with Poe. Mrs. Richmond is sorry that \n                   William F. Gill ever crossed her\n                  path, and her sister, \n                   Sarah Heywood, will write Gill\n                  requesting that he not publish her recollections of\n                  Poe. \n                   Jane E. Locke was deeply in love\n                  with Poe. Since her death, Mrs. Richmond has\n                  destroyed a large package of her letters that Poe had\n                  sent to her, but she encloses one memento of Mrs.\n                  Locke. She has given Poe's MS. of \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" to Mrs. Crane of East Boston, at the\n                  intercession of her pastor, Reverend \n                   Warren H. Cudworth.","Mrs. Whitman considers the review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's \"Memoir of\n                  Poe\" in the London Athenaeum, 10 February 1877, an\n                  unprovoked assault upon herself. Ingram had said that\n                  he had lent her copy of the book to \"a friend\" who\n                  wrote the review. Mrs. Whitman considers the matter\n                  itself of little moment, but the animus of it is a\n                  rude shock to all her previous impressions of the\n                  young Englishman who had invoked her aid, had sought\n                  her confidence and criticism, and had hailed her as\n                  his \"Providence.\" She and Ingram seem to have been\n                  like ships that meet on sea, then pass to meet no\n                  more.","Valentine encloses copies of the inscriptions on\n                  the gravestones of \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, and \n                   Ann Moore Valentine which are in\n                  the Allan section of the \n                   Shockoe Hill Cemetery in \n                   Richmond.","William F. Gill has taken her to\n                  task for helping Ingram and has asked her to request\n                  Ingram not to use \n                   Sarah Heywood's \"Recollections\n                  of Poe\" without letting him know that Gill desires\n                  that he not do so. \n                   Maria Clemm always spoke in\n                  strong terms of denunciation about the treatment\n                  Edgar received from the \n                   Allan family, but Mrs. Richmond\n                  thinks that Mrs. Clemm either did not know or would\n                  not reveal the real truths of the matter. She does\n                  not want to meet \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman but would\n                  like to meet \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, and\n                  she shrinks from \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis. [Item 18 is\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Heywood gives Ingram permission to us her\n                  \"Recollections of Poe\" in any way he pleases and\n                  wishes the sketch had gone into other hands because\n                  she has no confidence in \n                   William F. Gill's scholarly\n                  ability or literary taste; she allowed Gill to have\n                  it only because she thought it might help him write a\n                  better lecture on Poe. She encloses a newsclipping\n                  copy of a sonnet addressed to \n                   Annie Richmond by \n                   Benjamin West Ball.","Enclosed in Item 340. Eveleth questions a notice\n                  of \n                   William F. Gill's biography of\n                  Poe reporting in Scribner's that it has been well\n                  ascertained that Poe's intoxication was a thing\n                  caused by even the smallest quantity of wine and took\n                  the form of strange and highly intellectual but\n                  deranged orations on abstruse subjects. Eveleth wants\n                  to know how this has been ascertained. He points out\n                  that even \n                   Rufus Griswold did not charge Poe\n                  with habitual use of intoxicants and that \n                   N. P. Willis, \n                   George R. Graham, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman have said\n                  that they never discovered signs of strong drink in\n                  Poe. Why do the \n                   New York literati with whom Poe\n                  was personally acquainted not come forward to answer\n                  these questions about his drinking? Who has reported\n                  these \"deranged orations\"? Were they set down by Poe\n                  or by anyone for him? Are they part, or all, of his\n                  printed volumes? If so, the disorder assumed is\n                  nowhere manifest in the contents. Eveleth does not\n                  believe the stories of Poe's common drunkenness or of\n                  the crazing power of a drop of wine.","William F. Gill has shown himself\n                  to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister \n                   Sarah Heywood's recollections of\n                  Poe in his volume after she had written him that she\n                  wanted to use her paper for an article of her own.\n                  Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one\n                  favorable review of Gill's biography was written for\n                  a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his\n                  personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to\n                  her she felt immediately that he \"ought to know,\"\n                  that he \"must know,\" the things she knew about Poe.\n                  Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable\n                  paper but that the editors paid well. \n                   Maria Clemm had promised to leave\n                  to her all of her papers and letters. \n                   William Rouse has \n                   Edgar Poe's letter to \n                   William E. Burton of 1 June 1840\n                  [Item 18].","William F. Gill's publishing of\n                  extracts from letters of Poe to Mrs. Richmond is\n                  incomprehensible to her because Gill had only heard\n                  her read aloud portions of them some six or seven\n                  years earlier and the letters have never been out of\n                  her keeping. Bound volumes of Graham's for 1843,\n                  1846, and 1848 can be bought in \n                   Boston for $6 for all three. Is\n                  that too much? Mrs. Richmond thinks that Gill's\n                  scandalous attack on Ingram in the Boston Sunday\n                  Herald for 18 November is beneath Ingram's notice.\n                  She is sorry that \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton has\n                  died. \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet was once Poe's\n                  friend, but he said that she exasperated him beyond\n                  forgiveness. Poe made remarks about Mrs. Ellet and\n                  one or two other literary ladies in a letter to Mrs.\n                  Richmond, and for that reason, she suspects, \n                   Maria Clemm wanted to get\n                  possession of it.","Although often urged to do so, \n                   Annie Richmond has never sat for\n                  a photograph. Perhaps Ingram's request may\n                  prevail.","Mrs. Richmond feels that she is in Ingram's power\n                  since she has sent to him her letters from Poe, but\n                  she trusts him implicitly and is confident that she\n                  will never have cause for regret. She met \n                   William F. Gill at the Old South\n                  Fair and shrank from him as if he had been a reptile.\n                  If she can make up her mind to sit for a photograph,\n                  Ingram shall have one.","Mrs. Richmond's MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream\n                  Within a Dream\" have been lost by the photographer\n                  who was to make copies of them for Ingram.","If Ingram's words in some of his letters caused\n                  Mrs. Whitman pain during the past eventful year, the\n                  \"via dolorosa\" which she has \"of late\" been called to\n                  tread has \"effaced all minor sorrows, and regrets.\"\n                  She remembers only the happiness she felt in his\n                  earlier sympathy and friendship. She is now in the\n                  beautiful home of the Dailey's, surrounded by her own\n                  \"household goods,\" save those that fell under the\n                  auctioneer's hammer.","The lost MSS. of \"The Bells\" and \"A Dream Within a\n                  Dream\" have been found among the dead letters in the\n                  local post office! \"A Dream Within a Dream\" was sent\n                  to her by Poe in \"a sort of farewell letter\" that is\n                  now lost; later Poe made additions to the poem and\n                  published it in the Flag of Our Union. For Poe's\n                  sake, Mrs. Richmond has placed her correspondence and\n                  herself willingly and completely in Ingram's hands,\n                  asking only that he use the correspondence as he\n                  would wish another to use it if his wife or his\n                  sister were in her position. She feels acutely the\n                  delicacy of her relationship with Poe and knows well\n                  what nine out of ten people would make of it, given\n                  the opportunity Ingram has.","Poe's affection for Mrs. Richmond is the most\n                  precious memory her heart holds, and she has always\n                  spoken of him as an acquaintance and not as a friend\n                  because the world could not understand their\n                  friendship. She is thankful that \n                   William F. Gill did not get the\n                  MS. of \"A Dream Within a Dream\" and that Ingram will\n                  have the privilege of printing it in its original\n                  form. She encloses a copy of the MS. of \"The\n                  Bells.\"","Enclosed in Item 339. Clarke was present when Poe\n                  easily swam five miles in the \n                   James River and heard him read\n                  \"The Raven\" in the Concert Room of the Exchange\n                  Hotel.","Mrs. Whitman has much to say to Ingram, much to\n                  ask. She is preparing something to leave, after her\n                  \"dematerialization,\" to those who love her. Ingram's\n                  sorrow is a sorrow to her, always. \"Benedicte.\"","Mrs. Richmond gives Ingram permission to associate\n                  her name with Poe's, \"the dearest one I have ever\n                  known.\" She thinks \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss'\n                  reminiscences of Poe are \"very pleasant.\"","Mrs. Richmond hopes to hear soon that all the MSS.\n                  and magazines she has forwarded to Ingram are in his\n                  possession.","On what authority does Ingram write that the \n                   Poe family is descended from \n                   Le Poers ?","Miss Peckham informs Ingram that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is dead. At\n                  the last she talked much of Ingram and had something\n                  for Miss Peckham to tell him, but she did not see\n                  Mrs. Whitman before the end came. Mrs. Whitman had\n                  requested that no announcement be made of her death\n                  until after she was buried. Miss Peckham is sorry\n                  that Ingram has cause for bitterness toward American\n                  critics.","Dr. \n                   William F. Channing and \n                   Caleb Fiske Harris are \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's literary\n                  executors. Ingram's correspondence with her will be\n                  kept with her papers about Poe and will be used in\n                  writing a memoir of Mrs. Whitman and Poe, one of Mrs.\n                  Whitman's most cherished plans. With all of her\n                  amiability and generosity, Mrs. Whitman was both\n                  cautious and prudent; she never gave to anyone her\n                  letters from Poe in their entirety. Miss Peckham\n                  discusses Mrs. Whitman's will. There was much\n                  complaint about the way her funeral was ordered, for\n                  her kinsmen and close friends were not notified. Only\n                  the \"Spiritualists\" and the \"radicals\" knew.","Valentine encloses a statement from \n                   Thomas G. Clarke about Poe's\n                  having swum five miles in the \n                   James River. Item 332\n                  enclosed.","Eveleth encloses his contribution toward the\n                  making-up of something close to a true estimate of\n                  Poe: newsclippings of Poe's exchange with \n                   Thomas Dunn English in 1846,\n                  copies of six letters from Poe to Eveleth, copies of\n                  letters to him from \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe, \n                   John P. Kennedy, \n                   James Wood Davidson, Mrs.\n                  Whitman, and a copy of a letter Eveleth wrote to the\n                  editor of Scribner's Monthly. Eveleth has used the\n                  initials \"H. B. W.,\" which belong to \n                   Helen Bullock Webster, and\n                  Ingram is to do the same when he prints the letters.\n                  If Ingram can pay a trifle for these copies, it will\n                  be welcome, for Eveleth admits that he is poor\n                  enough. [This letter enclosed the following items:\n                  30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 58, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80,\n                  82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103,\n                  105, 114, 173, 266, 323.]","Ingram now has copies of all the correspondence\n                  Eveleth received from Poe except a mere note which\n                  was given away years ago to someone who wrote asking\n                  for a specimen of Poe's handwriting. Eveleth thinks \n                   John Neal's, \n                   George R. Graham's, and\n                  portions of \n                   James Wood Davidson's defenses\n                  of Poe had an undercurrent of the \n                   Rufus Griswold slanders while\n                  seeming to run in the opposite direction. \n                   John H. B. Latrobe's\n                  reminiscences are those of an old man in his second\n                  childhood. Ingram is at perfect liberty to reprint\n                  Eveleth's letters from Poe but without Eveleth's name\n                  or initials. Eveleth prefers not to part with the\n                  originals just yet but thinks that by and by he will\n                  send them to Ingram, if Ingram intimates an\n                  acceptance of them. The question of remuneration lies\n                  wholly with Ingram: if none, no grumbling.","Neither of Dr. \n                   John Bransby's sons survives.\n                  Hunter sends Ingram the names of Dr. Bransby's three\n                  daughters and encloses manuscript and printed copies\n                  of six of his own poems that he wishes Ingram to have\n                  inserted in some respectable English magazine.","Newspapers for 1810-1811 make no mention of \n                   David Poe appearing at the\n                  Baltimore Theatre. Judge \n                   Neilson Poe says that he has\n                  given away to autograph collectors nearly all of\n                  Poe's letters that were in his keeping. \n                   Thomas A. Edison keeps a copy of\n                  Poe's poems with him in his laboratory.","Mrs. Lewis saw much of Poe during the last year of\n                  his life and found him sensitive, gentle, and\n                  refined. The night before he left New York for\n                  Richmond in 1849, he had dinner and spent the night\n                  at her home. Having a presentiment that he would\n                  never see her again, he asked her to write his life,\n                  but she never felt equal to the task. Now Ingram has\n                  done it far better than she could have.","On his return to America, Lowell will send\n                  extracts from Poe's letters to him. Lowell visited\n                  Poe once in his \n                   New York lodgings, by\n                  appointment, and found Poe \"a little tipsy.\" The\n                  shape of Poe's head was peculiar: there was\n                  \"something snakelike about it.\" Lowell does not\n                  intend a moral judgment by this, only \"a physical\n                  suggestion.\" All impartial persons who had known Poe\n                  were of the opinion that he was untrustworthy.","The three published numbers of \n                   James Russell Lowell's Pioneer\n                  can still be picked up. If Ingram should sell or\n                  bequeath his Poe collection, it is to be hoped that\n                  it will come to some library in America. An American\n                  can better appreciate Poe's malice and fury as a\n                  critic of his contemporaries than can one at a\n                  distance. Poe gave a tone of vulgar personality to\n                  American criticism and was probably a sycophant in\n                  the direction of flattery. Higginson suggests that\n                  Ingram write to \n                   Charles J. Peterson, now owner\n                  of Peterson's Magazine.","Locker-Lampson gives Ingram permission to copy two\n                  letters now in his possession: one from Poe to \n                   Annie Richmond dated October\n                  1848, the other from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy dated 1836.","Peterson was associated with both \n                   Rufus Griswold and Poe on a\n                  magazine and knows and understands their characters\n                  thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any\n                  high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his\n                  biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was,\n                  conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was\n                  drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all\n                  that he did was done when thus half-demented; his\n                  mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote\n                  \"The Raven\" and \"The Gold Bug\" backwards, and he\n                  spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing\n                  ciphers.","Judge \n                   Neilson Poe is kindly disposed\n                  towards the memory of Poe, but he is very slow in\n                  executing his promises. His wife and daughter feel\n                  great repugnance in having \n                   Virginia Poe's picture copied,\n                  for it was made after her death and shows\n                  unmistakable marks of that fact. Judge Poe has some\n                  poetry written by Virginia.","Browne is mailing to Ingram an engraved portrait\n                  of General \n                   Robert E. Lee and two photographs\n                  of Poe taken from negatives. These photographs are\n                  unvarnished and unmounted; they can be colored, if\n                  Ingram chooses.","Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at\n                  the \n                   University of Virginia. Poe\n                  roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards\n                  moving to the West Range. George remembers a\n                  \"pugilistic combat,\" but \"it was a boyish freak \u0026\n                  frolic.\" Poe was fond of reading other poets and his\n                  own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he\n                  would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of\n                  his room. He was excitable, restless, at times\n                  wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he\n                  would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most\n                  attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a\n                  delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed,\n                  and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm\n                  himself he too often put himself under the influence\n                  of wine.","Valentine passed an evening lately with Mrs. \n                   John Allan at her home, but of\n                  course no mention was made of Poe. Valentine encloses\n                  a copy of Dr. \n                   Miles George's letter to him of\n                  18 May 1880.","Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not\n                  be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she\n                  will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be\n                  life-long regret. She is pleased with \n                   E. C. Stedman's remarks about\n                  \"For Annie\" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's\n                  Monthly.","\"Day and night my thoughts incline / To the\n                  blandishments of wine.\"","The tone of Ingram's letter is more gratifying\n                  than \"the hidden and unexpected blast\" he gave\n                  Stedman in the London Athenaeum. His article is\n                  merely a chapter in a book; after that, Stedman will\n                  have done with Poe. He thinks Poe's tales are his\n                  finest and strongest work. Stedman is not on friendly\n                  terms with \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard but\n                  regards him as a man of talent and a formidable\n                  adversary.","Mrs. Shelton appreciates the copy of Ingram's\n                  two-volume biography of Poe that he sent to her; it\n                  brings both sad and pleasant memories to her. She is\n                  glad that Ingram is doing Poe the justice she\n                  believes he deserves.","Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her\n                  letters from Poe printed \"word for word\" in Ingram's\n                  new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he\n                  would \"merely give the ideas of the writer.\" There\n                  are things in the letters which might be construed to\n                  Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty\n                  granted for publication had been restricted and\n                  confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that\n                  he was to give to the public only what he would have\n                  been willing to be known had the letters been\n                  addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have\n                  printed \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  from Poe had she been alive?","Father Tabb sends information about Poe that he\n                  has gathered from various persons who had known him\n                  well. He encloses a sonnet about Poe to be forwarded\n                  to Ingram.","This letter contains copies of nine letters from\n                  Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. The copies\n                  were made for Ingram by Browne \"with the exactest\n                  care.\" [They are Items 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22,\n                  24, 25.] Browne mailed this letter together with Item\n                  360.","The old vindictiveness against Poe still crops up\n                  in the Northern newspapers, partly because they hate\n                  the South and partly because some of the old\n                  mutual-admiration set still survive and have never\n                  forgiven Poe for telling them the truth about\n                  themselves. Browne encloses reminiscences of Poe\n                  which had been collected by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb and a copy of the\n                  note sent by \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass on 3 October\n                  1849, informing him that a man named Poe was at\n                  Ryan's 4th ward polls in \n                   Baltimore and in need of\n                  assistance. Browne accompanied this letter with Item\n                  359, containing copies of nine letters from Poe to\n                  Snodgrass. Item 359 enclosed.","Charles Ellis, \n                   Richmond : as a child Poe\n                  constantly led other youngsters into mischief. \n                   I. F. Allen, \n                   Richmond : Miss \n                   Jane Mackenzie, who educated \n                   Rosalie Poe and to whom Edgar\n                  submitted his juvenile poems, said the poems were\n                  worthless imitations of Byron, blended with some\n                  original nonsense; she tells the story of Poe's\n                  having pushed his way into the Allan house during \n                   John Allan's last days. Mr.\n                  Poiteaux, \n                   Richmond : Poe's two natures,\n                  tenderness and cruelty, swayed him in turn; at one\n                  time, to spite Mrs. Allan, he cut the throat of her\n                  pet fawn; he once crossed a ravine on the timbers of\n                  an old bridge, to the surprise and admiration of the\n                  boys; he recited \"Al Aaraaf\" for the girls' amusement\n                  and laughter. Dr. \n                   George W. Rawlings, \n                   Richmond : attended Poe in one of\n                  his drunken spells not long before his death; Poe\n                  told him, when his mind was quite clear, that the\n                  phantasms of mania were always delightful, that he\n                  saw nothing but visions of beauty and heard sweet\n                  music. Dr. \n                   [James?] Beale and Dr. \n                   [William P.?] Palmer, \n                   Richmond : Poe was utterly devoid\n                  of all moral sense, seemed really incapable of\n                  distinguishing between right and wrong. \n                   Lewis E. Harvie, \n                   Amelia County, VA : as a fellow\n                  student at the \n                   University of Virginia, he once\n                  saw Poe, debauched and raving, lying on the grass and\n                  uttering terrible blasphemies. Dr. and Mrs. \n                   Ray Thomas, \n                   Richmond : when in their school\n                  after returning from \n                   England, Poe was ambitious,\n                  enjoyed \n                   Horace, was good at scanning,\n                  had a fight once with \n                   Bill Allen, and read his poems\n                  to a theatrical audience in the school; once, as\n                  Officer of the Day in the local military company, he\n                  put the clock two hours ahead to solve a problem\n                  about the military watch, showing by this that he was\n                  wholly unreliable.","Nothing of Poe's was put up for sale at the\n                  auction at the Allan house in \n                   Richmond which Valentine\n                  attended. Poe's letters went to young Allan. The\n                  public knows nothing about these letters, but\n                  Valentine thinks they were written from \n                   Fortress Monroe. If they are\n                  published, Ingram shall have copies.","The \n                   Poe family is mentioned.","The date of Poe's birth was in the \n                   Allan family Bible. Valentine has\n                  seen letters the \n                   Valentine s in \n                   Richmond wrote to the \n                   Allan s while they were in \n                   Europe, and he has urged the\n                  gentleman in charge of the late Mrs. Allan's papers\n                  not to burn any of the letters, papers, receipts, or\n                  accounts because there may be some mention of Poe in \n                   John Allan's business letters.\n                  Dr. \n                   Miles George and Mr. \n                   Thomas Bolling are still living,\n                  but Dr. \n                   Orlando Fairfax, another fellow\n                  student of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia, is\n                  dead.","Hennequin sends Ingram a volume of Poe\n                  translations that he has edited and writes that more\n                  than half of the book is Ingram's. He requests a\n                  letter of introduction to some Parisian journalist\n                  Ingram might know.","Eveleth comments upon and asks sharp questions\n                  about Ingram's biography of Poe. He doubts \n                   Mary Gove Nichols' story about\n                  the straw bed and the cat and Poe's military overcoat\n                  warming the dying \n                   Virginia Poe. Eveleth tells a\n                  story of Poe's blood relationship to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eveleth points out to Ingram that in the first\n                  volume of his biography Ingram alludes to Poe's\n                  \"gradual but slow deterioration\" but contradicts this\n                  statement many times throughout the two volumes.","Mullin encloses a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                 'The Shavin' (A Piece of Ravin a la \n                   Edgar A. Poe )\" which he first\n                  met in an old number of a Scottish magazine, the\n                  People's Friend. It consists of five stanzas, signed\n                  by \n                   John F. Mill.","Tridon considers Poe the greatest poet, man of\n                  letters, and thinker who has ever appeared on earth.\n                  He reproaches Ingram for accepting without refuting\n                  the diagnosis of \"that ignorant doctress Shew\" who\n                  insisted that Poe had a brain lesion. Tridon plans to\n                  publish a study on Poe, Baudelaire, and Rollinat.","Tridon requests \n                   Annie Richmond's address so that\n                  he might write to her. He thinks that Poe is\n                  misjudged in \n                   France as well as in \n                   America.","Garnett certifies that the authorship of Tamerlane\n                  was unknown at the \n                   British Museum until Ingram\n                  pointed it out.","Because of an overload of work, Stedman declines\n                  assisting Ingram in preparing a variorum edition of\n                  Poe's works. He thinks there is no complete, correct\n                  edition of the poems; and although not all Poe's\n                  verse is worth the trouble, he believes that it would\n                  be well to preserve everything that could throw light\n                  upon the growth and quality of so marked a\n                  genius.","On what authority does Ingram write that there is\n                  still a family calling themselves \"de la Poe\"? Does\n                  Ingram know anything of a Dr. Poe in the time of\n                  Elizabeth and James I? Does he know anything of the\n                  Mr. Poe who got into trouble in the reign of Charles\n                  I?","I. L. Poe believes the \n                   Upper Palatinate of the Rhine was\n                  the cradle of the \n                   Poe family. He encloses a\n                  newsclipping about the marriage of an Irish\n                  landowner, Lord Emly, to a Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer.","Valentine encloses a 5\" x 7\" photograph of the\n                  Allan mansion in \n                   Richmond, which is to be razed\n                  for a hotel to be built on the site.","George E. Woodberry has written\n                  to Eveleth that it is a pity Poe suffers by his\n                  friends as much as by his enemies and that he has\n                  seldom seen \"a more disingenuous book than Ingram's.\"\n                  In another letter Woodberry has said, \"I have no\n                  doubt that all the documents published by \n                   [Rufus] Griswold are genuine and\n                  ungarbled. Poe's character cannot be sustained,\n                  except on the theory that he was of unsound mind. If\n                  he was responsible, he was a bad fellow.... His\n                  nature was, from the first, of a sinister cast....\n                  Griswold, in his facts, is very near the truth....\n                  The Conchology is a frightful affair --as plain a\n                  theft as ever was. Poe had no capacity for truth\n                  telling.\" Eveleth judges that Woodberry's forthcoming\n                  work on Poe is to be Griswold's over again, only more\n                  so.","Mallarme discusses translations of Poe's works\n                  into French and \n                   Emile Hennequin's magnificent\n                  study of Poe which has recently appeared in La Revue\n                  Contemporaine (25 January 1885).","Eveleth poses searching, abrupt questions about\n                  Ingram's two-volume biography of Poe.","Enclosed in Item 397.","Mallarme appreciates Ingram's having used his\n                  translation of Poe, as representing \n                   France, in his \"memoir.\"\n                  Mallarme's translations of Poe's poems will be\n                  published in book form, illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","Stedman appreciates the presentation copy of\n                  Ingram's volume The Raven and the dedication of it to\n                  him.","Euget has received Ingram's volumes on Poe and\n                  promises to write on this \"splendid enrichment of the\n                  Poe literature.\"","Rollinat encloses a five-page rhyming\n                  interpretation of \"The Raven\" made to prove to\n                  himself how much he could admire that miraculous\n                  genius.","Browne calls Ingram's attention to a\n                  pathological-psychological study of Poe by Dr. \n                   Henry Maudsley in the Journal of\n                  Mental Science 45: 328, London, 1860, and a criticism\n                  of Poe's genius by Bleibtren in his Geschicte der\n                  Englischer Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887.","Eveleth requests return of a Poe portrait that had\n                  been cut from Graham's and asks what Ingram thinks of\n                  Bacon as Shakespeare.","Roden points out misplaced verses and a serious\n                  error in a French translation in Ingram's volume, The\n                  Raven, published by Redway in 1885.","Copied from the Curio, January-February 1887.","Challenging Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's recently\n                  published statements about the causes of Poe's death,\n                  Clemm gives an account of Moran's version when he\n                  called on Clemm to bury Poe in 1849.","Eveleth points out that Ingram's narrative of\n                  Poe's movements is sundry scraps of information that\n                  are rather disconnected and not very easy to put into\n                  form as reliable history.","Beecher encloses a copy of his article from the\n                  Curio, January-February 1887, about the houses in New\n                  York where Poe lived, which he thinks is itself\n                  abominable and full of the most atrocious errors, but\n                  he hopes that Ingram may get an idea of the houses as\n                  they were. He knew many persons who had known Poe\n                  intimately, but of these, only \n                   Thomas Dunn English survives.","An eighteen-stanza translation of \"The Raven\" into\n                  Italian.","Ortensi requests that Ingram encourage favorable\n                  reception of his Italian prose version of Poe's\n                  poetry with the English editors to whom he has mailed\n                  copies.","Newspapers are reprinting verses, obviously\n                  spurious, said to have been written by Poe on the\n                  flyleaf of a book he had borrowed from the \n                   University of Virginia. Browne\n                  encloses a copy of a letter from \n                   Henry C. Carey to \n                   John P. Kennedy, 8 December\n                  1834, sending Kennedy \"a small sum\" in payment to his\n                  \"friend\" for \"one of his tales\" (i.e., \"MS. Found in\n                  a Bottle\"); Kennedy noted on 12 April 1851 that the\n                  sum was $20 forwarded to Poe from \n                   Eliza Leslie, editor of The\n                  Atlantic Souvenir (i.e., The Gift).","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of a portrait of\n                  Poe that now belongs to her brother \n                   John Prentiss Poe, a photograph\n                  of a water-color portrait of \n                   Virginia Poe that is now hers,\n                  and an autograph taken from a letter from Poe to her\n                  father Judge \n                   Neilson Poe. \n                   Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company has been allowed to use these\n                  things in their new edition of Poe's works; after\n                  they appear in those volumes they may be offered for\n                  sale. She thanks Ingram for his appreciation of her\n                  illustrious kinsman.","That stuff about Poe and helium, if there be such\n                  a thing, is all newspaper silliness; because Poe\n                  wanted his balloon to go higher than any had gone\n                  before, he had to suppose a gas lighter than\n                  hydrogen. That Poe did anticipate some of the general\n                  conclusions of later science, Browne did try to show\n                  once in an article. Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb has recently written\n                  an epigram on Poe and his critics, especially \n                   George Woodberry, and the\n                  enclosed autographed copy is for Ingram's collection.\n                  Mentions \n                   Mark Twain. [Item 380\n                  enclosed.]","Stone and Kimball Publishing\n                  Company wishes to use Ingram's photographs\n                  of Poe and his mother in order that they might have\n                  all the pictures of Poe in one edition.","There is an engraved picture of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe and none of any kind\n                  of General \n                   David Poe, Sr. \n                   Stone and Kimball's fourth\n                  volume contains Miss Poe's photograph of Edgar; the\n                  ninth is to have that of Virginia. The poem \"Alone\"\n                  is in an album belonging to Mrs. Dawson, whose mother\n                  was a Mrs. \n                   Lucy Holmes Balderston, for whom\n                  Poe wrote the poem. A miniature and an old\n                  daguerreotype of Edgar are now owned in \n                   Baltimore, but they are not for\n                  sale.","Cotton sees a \"striking\" similarity between the\n                  last stanza of \n                   George Darley's \"The Wedding\n                  Wake\" and two half-lines in Poe's \"Lenore.\"","The \n                   University of Virginia is to\n                  honor Poe on the fiftieth anniversary of his death,\n                  and Valentine has furnished the figure of $750 as the\n                  cost of a bust, for which Professor \n                   James A. Harrison is appealing\n                  for funds; his idea is to establish a memorial to Poe\n                  at the University, and the bust is to be placed in an\n                  alcove in the new library. [Item 907 is\n                  enclosed.]","D'Unger gives an account of his association with\n                  Poe, which began in 1846, of Poe's heavy drinking,\n                  glumness, carping, and inability to make and keep\n                  friends. He thinks the story of Poe's having been\n                  \"cooped\" is \"mere twaddle.\" Poe was a believer in\n                  \"spirit friends,\" spiritualism not then being known.\n                  D'Unger was told that it was on a visit to \"an\n                  improper house\" that Poe met a girl named Lenore.","In Ingram's judgment the combination of these two\n                  selections in the same volume published by \n                   Leonard Smithers and Company is\n                  curious and unexplained. He finds the book awkward,\n                  the illustrations childishly absurd, and the\n                  frontispiece a caricature; and he believes that\n                  whoever wrote \"Some Account of the Author\" has done\n                  nothing but retail libels gathered from the garbage\n                  of journalistic gossip.","Chemfield lists Portuguese translations of Poe's\n                  works and the volumes he used in writing his Memoir\n                  of Poe.","A three-stanza poem written for the Poe Alcove to\n                  be established at the \n                   University of Virginia.","One four-line stanza prompted by Poe's second\n                  rejection for admission to the Hall of Fame.","Does Ingram know of Robert or \n                   Robin Povall of \n                   St. Martin's-in-the-Field, about\n                  1650? Virginians pronounced the name \"Porsy.\" \n                   Samuel Pepys repeatedly mentions\n                  the name \"Povey.\" Valentine encloses a clipping from\n                  the New York Herald, 9 September 1906, but the\n                  likeness in it of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is\n                  not good.","Bewley has criticized \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's \"romance\"\n                  about Poe's ancestry in his book on the origin and\n                  early history of the \n                   Poe family and has given Ingram\n                  credit for the \"surest testimony\" on the subject\n                  gathered from Poe's family in Baltimore.","Miss Poe gives Ingram permission to use her\n                  photographs to illustrate his forthcoming articles on\n                  Poe. American magazines and newspapers are clamoring\n                  for Poe contributions for their January 1909 issues.\n                  Poe's The Raven and Other Poems can be bought for\n                  $30.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of Judge \n                   Neilson Poe that has not been\n                  reproduced in any American edition, a photograph of\n                  her brother the Honorable \n                   John Prentiss Poe, and one of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Virginia Poe's father. Ingram\n                  may use these in his articles, but he is to return\n                  them to her later on.","Miss Poe surveys her correspondence with Sir \n                   Edmund T. Bewley about \n                   Poe family ancestry.","No picture of \n                   Rosalie Poe was ever made. She\n                  was a nervous, eccentric creature who idolized Edgar,\n                  and he was as considerate of her as was possible.\n                  American newspapers are full of articles about the\n                  forthcoming Poe centennial celebrations.","Ortensi declines to make a new impression of Poe's\n                  poems for the centennial, but he will do something\n                  worthy for the 19 January occasion.","Miss Poe copies for Ingram from family records the\n                  birth and death dates of \n                   David Poe, Jr., \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, and \n                   Rosalie Poe. She has a\n                  water-color portrait of \n                   Sam Poe, Edgar's uncle, who was\n                  a local wit and writer of clever verses. She knows of\n                  no portraits of \n                   David Poe or of \n                   David Poe, Jr., but she bought\n                  an oil painting of Edgar in a \n                   Baltimore shop in 1896. Professor\n                   James A. Harrison has a paper in\n                  the January Century Magazine entitled \"Poe and Mrs.\n                  Whitman.\" Miss Poe has in her possession most of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters to\n                   Maria Clemm from 1859 on.","Browne has forwarded an article from the\n                  Cosmopolitan magazine, the silliest thing about Poe\n                  that has yet appeared; the author is probably the\n                  wife of one of the younger generation of Poes. Browne\n                  has searched the October 1849 newspaper files for the\n                  name of the boat that probably brought Poe from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore, but without success.\n                  \"Ryan's,\" where \n                   Joseph W. Walker reported finding\n                  Poe ill, was a public house called \"Gunner's Hall\" at\n                  44 E. Lombard Street, which would be in the Fourth\n                  Ward. At that time the polls were usually held in the\n                  public houses, and the candidates saw that every\n                  voter had all the whiskey he wanted.","Ortensi has sent his new translation of Poe's life\n                  and poems and a copy of La Tribuna (Rome) for 20\n                  January with his article on the Poe centennial. The\n                  publishers did not wait for the dedication of the new\n                  edition of the poems to Ingram, and the book was\n                  published without it.","The Poe centennial celebration was a great success\n                  in \n                   Baltimore. The \n                   University of Virginia has\n                  awarded Poe medals to Miss Poe and to Ingram.","Miss Poe has no absolute proof that Edgar was born\n                  in \n                   Boston, but it is a family\n                  record and a family tradition. The Richmond\n                  Times-Dispatch, 17 January, has a photograph of the\n                  Reverend \n                   John Buchanan who baptized Edgar\n                  in December 1811. Poe's brother William Henry Leonard\n                  is said to have written beautiful verses in the album\n                  of a woman whom Ingram identifies as a Miss Durham.\n                  Edgar's uncle, \n                   Samuel Poe, was the son of\n                  General \n                   David Poe and \n                   Elizabeth Cairnes Poe. Miss Poe\n                  is \"almost certain\" that her old portrait of \n                   Edgar Poe was not taken from\n                  life; it has been copied by and for Professor \n                   James A. Harrison who plans to\n                  use it as he has used some of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letters\n                  and many of \n                   Maria Clemm's letters to \n                   Neilson Poe. Ingram has Miss\n                  Poe's permission to use these as well as letters from\n                   Annie Richmond and \n                   Gabriel Harrison. She encloses a\n                  copy of the Latin inscription that was on the stone\n                  which \n                   Neilson Poe had prepared for\n                  Edgar's grave.","Miss Poe has received permission from her nephew, \n                   Edwin W. Poe of \n                   Chicago, to have the water-color\n                  portrait of \n                   Sam Poe copied, at Ingram's\n                  expense, for his use.","Miss Poe is posting to Ingram the photograph of \n                   Sam Poe ; he may return by money\n                  order for $1.75 to cover cost. [The letter identifies\n                   Edwin Poe as residing in \n                   Baltimore, not \n                   Chicago : cf. Items 418 and\n                  419.]","Browne once wrote a now \"forgotten paper of no\n                  account\" for the New Eclectic magazine in which he\n                  plotted Poe's last trip from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Baltimore. He vouches for the\n                  validity of the note \n                   Joseph Walker wrote in October\n                  1849 to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass asking him to\n                  come to Ryans' to help \n                   Edgar Poe ; it was found in a\n                  bundle of letters from Poe to Dr. Snodgrass. Browne\n                  asks Ingram to write the life of Sir \n                   Francis Nicholson, soldier,\n                  statesman, and governor of \n                   Virginia and \n                   Maryland at the close of the\n                  seventeenth century. Browne has sent Ingram a report\n                  on \n                   James H. Whitty, a map of \n                   Baltimore showing Ryan's place,\n                  the place where Poe died, and the place he is buried.\n                  He encloses a poem by Reverend \n                   John B. Tabb entitled \"In\n                  Touch.\"","Miss Poe encloses a copy she has made of \n                   Walter K. Watkins's newspaper\n                  article, \"Where Poe was Born,\" the Boston Transcript,\n                  13 January 1909, in which he discusses the plays in\n                  which David and \n                   Elizabeth Poe appeared from 1806\n                  through 1809 and the songs they sang in them. He also\n                  attempts to fix the number of the house in which Poe\n                  was born.","Miss Poe lists the nine letters from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as the\n                  letters and parts of autograph letters in her\n                  possession which were written by Poe.","Ingram asserts that M. Calvocoressi's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe, his biographers, his\n                  editors, his critics,\" which appeared in Le Mercure\n                  on 1 February 1909, contains numerous assertions\n                  which are inexact and prejudicial to himself and to\n                  the honor of Poe, for Calvocoressi says that there\n                  was no complete edition of Poe's works before the\n                  twentieth century and points to Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's\n                  seventeen-volume edition, published by \n                   T. Y. Crowell in 1902, as proof.\n                  Ingram's own edition of 1874, published by \n                   Adam and Charles Black,\n                  Edinburg, and the Stedman-Woodberry edition,\n                  published by \n                   Stone and Kimball, Chicago,\n                  1895, are better, Ingram insists, because on the\n                  whole Professor Harrison's edition is bad.","Conan Doyle appreciates Ingram's letter and his\n                  present of a book about Poe, which he shall always\n                  prize. He alludes to a dinner honoring Poe centennial\n                  which is reported in Items 990 and 991.","Vallette will publish Ingram's letter correcting\n                  M. Calvocoressi's article in Le Mercure de France on\n                  1 April.","Miss Poe justifies the charge of $1.75 for the\n                  photograph of \n                   Sam Poe. She gives Ingram\n                  permission to use all of the letters she has sent him\n                  in his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe sends Ingram copies of the nine letters\n                  from Poe to \n                   John P. Kennedy that are in the \n                   Peabody Institute as well as a\n                  copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's letter to\n                  Mrs. Clemm of 28 October 1849. [Item 67\n                  enclosed.]","Miss Poe sends Ingram a copy of Poe's letter to \n                   Maria Clemm, 18 September\n                  1848.","Miss Poe asks Ingram when his new biography of Poe\n                  will be forthcoming.","Miss Poe has received Ingram's money order [for\n                  $1.75 to cover the cost of photographing the\n                  water-color of \n                   Sam Poe ]. Her brother, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, was present\n                  at the second burial of \n                   Virginia Poe and believes he has\n                  an account of it in his library at home. \n                   William F. Gill died several\n                  years ago. [Gill was not to die until 1917.]","Miss Poe encloses an account of the reinterment of\n                   Virginia Poe from the Baltimore\n                  Sun, 20 January 1885. [Item 846 enclosed.]","Miss Poe regrets Ingram's continued indisposition.\n                  She has given her nephew, Reverend \n                   Neilson Poe Carey, a letter of\n                  introduction to Ingram.","Eugene L. Didier, author of The\n                  Poe Cult, has for years been \"giving out articles,\"\n                  most of them of no literary or other value, and\n                  readers quite understand his status.","John Prentiss Poe is dead, and\n                  Miss Poe encloses a copy of the Memorial Meeting of\n                  the Bench and Bar of Baltimore City held in his\n                  honor. She gives Ingram permission to use the\n                  valentine poem by \n                   Virginia Poe in any way he\n                  chooses and regrets that she has no other verses by\n                  her.","Browne encloses a copy of an undated letter from \n                   Maria Clemm to an unidentified\n                  addressee requesting money for herself and her\n                  children. Browne obtained this letter from the\n                  addressee's grandson who very positively refuses to\n                  allow his grandfather's name to be mentioned.","Miss Poe encloses Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation, 11 March and 1 June 1909. She\n                  thinks that Ingram should put on dynamo speed and\n                  finish his new biography of Poe, or in the face of\n                  new competition, he may be made to blush at his want\n                  of knowledge and lack of materials. \n                   Neilson Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore on 11 August 1809 and\n                  died there on 3 January 1884; his wife, \n                   Josephine Emily Clemm Poe, died\n                  in \n                   Baltimore on 13 January 1889;\n                  both are buried in \n                   Greenmount Cemetery,\n                  Baltimore.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent Miss Poe\n                  copies of his articles on Poe printed in the Nation,\n                  and she forwards them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses another installment of Professor\n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe from the Nation.","Miss Poe encloses a copy of what is possibly the\n                  last of Professor \n                   Killis Campbell's articles on\n                  Poe in the Nation. She has deliberately refrained\n                  from writing to Campbell, but he is coming to call on\n                  her in \n                   Baltimore.","There is an uncut edition of Poe's poems\n                  advertised for sale in the \n                   Armstrong Library sale to be held\n                  in \n                   Boston in April.","Miss Poe furnishes dates from the \n                   Poe family records: children of \n                   William Clemm, Jr., and \n                   Maria Poe Clemm -- \n                   Henry Clemm, born 10 September\n                  1818, died young and unmarried; \n                   Maria Clemm, born 22 August\n                  1820, died 5 November 1822; \n                   Virginia Elizabeth Clemm, born\n                  13 August 1822, baptized by Bishop \n                   James Kemp on 5 November 1822,\n                  married to \n                   Edgar Poe by the Reverend Mr.\n                  Converse, \n                   Richmond, 16 May 1836, died at \n                   Fordham on 30 January 1847. It is\n                  said that \n                   J. P. Morgan and \n                   Dodd, Mead and Company have the\n                  most valuable collections of Poeana. Now that Ingram\n                  has finished writing his biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton, he should\n                  give his Raven the right of way and push it to a\n                  finish and have the \"last word\" before he is eclipsed\n                  by a score of presumptuous amateurs.","Miss Poe is pleased that Ingram is hard at work on\n                  his biography of Poe. The commendations of his\n                  biography of \n                   Thomas Chatterton are\n                  interesting.","Miss Poe asks Ingram for a list of old American\n                  papers and magazines that he needs for reference.","Eugene Didier apparently thinks\n                  his The Poe Cult, and Other Poe Papers is the only\n                  worthwhile \"edition\" of Poe.","William Henry Leonard Poe wrote\n                  some verses in an album belonging to \n                   Rosa Durham, to whom he was\n                  supposed to have been engaged; but the album was\n                  destroyed by fire. Miss Poe copies for Ingram an\n                  account of the death of General \n                   David Poe, from the Baltimore\n                  American, Saturday, 19 October 1816.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has visited Miss\n                  Poe and has promised to share his Poe materials with\n                  her, which she will send to Ingram.","She sends Ingram a clipping, and notes that \"Dr. \n                   Charles W. Kent will doubtless\n                  give you 1500 authorities to verify his declaration.\"\n                  The unidentified newsclipping pasted on this letter\n                  states that Dr. Kent, Professor of English at the \n                   University of Virginia, declared\n                  at \n                   Morgantown, WV, 14 July 1911,\n                  that \n                   Edgar Poe \"was not killed by\n                  excessive drinking but was the victim of a thief\" who\n                  drugged him in order to rob him of a purse containing\n                  $1,500.","The completion of the Poe monument to be erected\n                  in \n                   Baltimore is assured by adding a\n                  gift of $5,000 from \n                   Orrin C. Painter to the sum\n                  already in hand. Sir \n                   Moses Ezekiel has signed the\n                  contract, and the monument is to be finished in two\n                  years. Miss Poe has given Professor \n                   Killis Campbell a list of\n                  Ingram's \"wants,\" and he has promised to write to\n                  Ingram.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell writes to Miss\n                  Poe that his Poe gleanings this summer were\n                  disappointingly small.","Orrin C. Painter has had a $500\n                  wrought-iron gate put in the wall of \n                   Westminster Churchyard, giving a\n                  fine view of Poe's grave from the street. Miss Poe's\n                  nephew Edgar has been elected by a large vote to the\n                  office of \n                   Attorney General of Maryland,\n                  the same office his father, \n                   John Prentiss Poe, held for\n                  twenty years.","On 19 January 1912, the Poe monument in \n                   Westminster churchyard was\n                  decorated with laurel wreaths and superb white\n                  roses.","Poe's impassioned letter from \n                   Richmond to \n                   Maria Clemm in \n                   Baltimore, which \n                   Neilson Poe refused to allow\n                  anyone to publish because it was so personal, was\n                  dated 29 August 1835. None of the \n                   Poe family knows anything of \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe's\n                  visits to \n                   Greece and \n                   Russia. Miss Poe encloses a copy\n                  of some \"puerile verses\" by W. H. L. Poe which Ingram\n                  may use as he sees fit. She quotes from Mrs. Clemm's\n                  letter to \n                   Neilson Poe, 27 September 1870:\n                  \"You have been a dear kind son to me. I wish you,\n                  when God calls me, to see to my burial.\" Mrs. Clemm's\n                  last note to \n                   Neilson Poe was dated 9 January\n                  1871; she died the following month.","Chase requests permission to quote from Ingram's\n                  \"magnum opus\" in his \"Poe\" contribution to the\n                  \"Poetry and Life\" series. Chase encloses an article\n                  on Coleridge to indicate the nature of his own task\n                  in writing about Poe.","Miss Poe has no idea why \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe was\n                  named Leonard. Miss Dawson has allowed her to copy\n                  from her album Poe's poem \"Alone,\" which he wrote in\n                  it, and his brother's poem \"I Have Gazed on Woman's\n                  Cheek,\" which Poe copied into it. If Ingram wishes,\n                  she will copy for his use all of the last letters Poe\n                  wrote to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman [Published in\n                   James A. Harrison's 1909 volume\n                  on the subject].","Professor \n                   C. Alphonso Smith of the \n                   University of Virginia has a\n                  chapter on Poe in a volume of lectures. The \"Henry\"\n                  to whom \n                   John Allan wrote on 1 November\n                  1824 must be \n                   William Henry Leonard Poe, who\n                  was then living with his grandfather in \n                   Baltimore. \"Eliza\" was the late\n                  Mrs. \n                   Henry Herring, sister of \n                   Maria Clemm. Would \n                   Maria Clemm's letters from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and \n                   Annie Richmond, written after\n                  1849, be of any use to Ingram?","An editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger has\n                  searched out and sent to her a syndicated article, 14\n                  January 1912, which is a reprint of an article by Poe\n                  in the Columbia Spy.","Miss Poe knows no \"Herring\" in \n                   Baltimore and has never heard of\n                  an album owned by them. She encloses a copy of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's\n                  \"unutterable affection\" letter, as the late Professor\n                  Harrison called it, and describes the letters she has\n                  from Mrs. Whitman to \n                   Maria Clemm, offering to send\n                  them to Ingram.","Miss Poe encloses an eighteen-page MS. copy of \n                   John Preston Beecher's article\n                  in the Curio, January-February 1888, on the houses in\n                  which Poe lived in \n                   New York City, and some\n                  newspapers of 1909, in one of which is the photograph\n                  of \n                   Jane Stith Stanard's tomb which\n                  Ingram desires.","J. P. Morgan's collection of\n                  Poeana is said to be the most complete.","Ingram's letter of 13 May 1912 did not go down on\n                  the Titanic; it reached Miss Poe safely. She keenly\n                  appreciates the honor Ingram bestows on her in\n                  inscribing to her his new biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is glad to be of help to Ingram in\n                  collecting Poe materials. She sends him a copy of\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's The Last\n                  Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.","Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has written to\n                  Miss Poe that in 1903 Mr. \n                   William Nelson of \n                   Patterson, NJ, sold to Mr. \n                   George H. Richmond of \n                   New York the two poems which were\n                  said to have been written by \n                   Edgar Poe in an album belonging\n                  to \n                   Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.","Miss Poe encloses all there is about the Arnold\n                  and Poe matter in the \n                   Historical Society of Portland.\n                  She will have a friend in \n                   Richmond make a photograph of the\n                   Stanard family tomb. \n                   James H. Whitty of \n                   Richmond has an article on Poe in\n                  the Nation, July 1912; Professor \n                   Killis Campbell has sent it to\n                  her with his comments, not compliments. She notes\n                  that Ingram is moving his household to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe encloses a photograph of the \n                   Stanard family tomb in \n                   Richmond and an eight-line parody\n                  of \"The Raven\" beginning, \"Then the vessel sinking,\n                  lifting....\"","It was \n                   John R. Thompson who brought the\n                  MS. of \"O Tempora O Mores\" to \n                   Eugene L. Didier. Miss Poe notes\n                  that Ingram has completed his move to \n                   Brighton.","Miss Poe sends a newsclipping reprinting the Latin\n                  inscription prepared for Poe's gravestone by \n                   Neilson Poe and informs Ingram\n                  that \n                   William F. Gill has printed a\n                  portion of it in his biography of Poe.","Miss Poe is certain that Professor \n                   Killis Campbell will not be\n                  annoyed by Ingram's criticism of his \"Poe Canon.\" She\n                  finds \n                   Woodrow Wilson's election to the\n                  presidency especially gratifying.","The \n                   George Poe mentioned in document\n                  of 1762 belongs, so far as Miss Poe knows, to the \n                   Adam and Andrew Poe line of\n                  famous Indian fighters in \n                   Ohio and not to her branch of the\n                   Poe family. President \n                   Howard Taft is busy giving all\n                  plums possible to his friends, and the Democrats are\n                  devising schemes to turn them out the first minute\n                  before or after 4 March. [Two printed items\n                  enclosed.]","Thomas W. Gibson was found guilty\n                  by the same Court Martial Board that tried Poe. \n                   Allan B. Magruder and \n                   Timothy P. Jones were cadets at\n                  the Academy at that time. Letter encloses a copy of\n                  Poe's letter, 10 March 1831, to the Superintendent of\n                  the Academy [See Letters 1: 44-45].","Because the records of the Academy were destroyed\n                  by fire in 1838, it is impossible to furnish Ingram a\n                  copy of Colonel \n                   Sylvanus Thayer's reply to Poe's\n                  letter of 10 March 1831.","Inscribed by Ingram to an unidentified donor.","Chase shares Ingram's interest in \n                   Thomas Marlowe. He regrets that\n                  Ingram suffers insomnia and wishes him a summer of\n                  good health.","Fragements of a draft of an account of Ingram's\n                  acquaintance with \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne and\n                  with a number of other \"most interesting people of \n                   London and \n                   Paris \" in the 1870's, including\n                  \"poets, artists, sculptors, editors, and clubmen.\"\n                  Ingram explains that he became acquainted with\n                  Swinburne while attempting \"to raise a fund\" for the\n                  \"permanent benefit\" of Poe's destitute sister,\n                  Rosalie, and he describes how he was drawn\" into the\n                  maelstrom of [Swinburne's] attraction\" by \"the\n                  nobility of his ideals and the heroic way in which\n                  they were advocated\" as well as by \"the irresistible,\n                  inexhaustible music of his poetry.\" Ingram reports\n                  that Swinburne considered Poe \"the first true and\n                  great genius of \n                   America, \" that he preferred Poe\n                  to \n                   Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he\n                  \"commented upon the'nymphomanic habit of body or\n                  mind which seems to have regulated the relations of\n                  the literary ladies with Poe,' \" and that he\n                  expressed his appreciation of Ingram's efferts to\n                  rescue Poe from the machinations of \n                   Rufus Griswold. Ingram mentions\n                  numerous individuals including Baudelaire, \n                   Ford Madox Brown, \n                   Robert Browning, Lord Byron, \n                   George Chapman, \n                   R. H. Horne, \n                   Victor Hugo, \n                   Frederick Locker-Lampson, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, \n                   Edouard Manet, \n                   Christopher Marlowe, the\n                  Rossettis, Shelley, Thackeray, and Voltaire.","Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent a\n                  miniature of Poe's mother to Ingram in 1875 [see Item\n                  226], and he reproduced it as a frontispiece to the\n                  second volume of his 1880 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions. This photograph was forwarded\n                  by \n                   Laura Ingram to the \n                   University of Virginia\n                  Library after the bulk of her brother's Poe\n                  materials had reached the Library in 1921.","Photograph made by the \n                   London Stereoscopic Company. \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton sent\n                  the original to Ingram in 1875. [See Item 210.]","The original of this prospectus was sent to Ingram\n                  by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","This daguerreotype was made in 1848 and presented in that year to Sarah Anna Lewis by Edgar Poe. She allowed Ingram to use copies of it in the mid-1870s and bequeathed it to him at her death in 1880.","Photograph made by \n                   Warren of Boston and Cambridge,\n                  MA. \n                   Annie Richmond sent it to Ingram\n                  in 1876. [See Items 300 and 301.]","Mann S. Valentine sent this\n                  photograph to Ingram in December 1884. [See Item\n                  376.]","The original of this pen drawing was presented to\n                  Ingram by Mallarme.","Photograph made by \n                   A. E. Willis, New York, NY.","Modelled for the \n                   Jefferson Hotel, \n                   Richmond, VA.","Forwarded to the \n                   University of Virginia Library on\n                  9 October 1933 by \n                   Laura Ingram.","These sketches show Mrs. Houghton as she was ca.\n                  1877 and were made by an unknown artist, probably in\n                  1908.","This drawing was made by \n                   Edouard Manet ; it is signed by\n                  both Manet and \n                   Stephane Mallarme and was\n                  presented to Ingram probably in 1875.","Includes \"Mr. Lacy,\" \"The Guilty Mother,\" and\n                  \"Emigrant Actors.\" Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item has been made into a booklet.","Introduces and prints letter from Poe, in\n                  Philadelphia, to Dr. \n                   Nathan C. Brooks, in Baltimore,\n                  4 September 1838. Text printed in Letters, I,\n                  111-113.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  68-72. Item consists largely of reviews by Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, XX,\n                  119-121, 124-133.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXI, 205-209.","A biographical sketch of Poe.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVII, 49-53.","Charles F. Briggs, \n                   Edgar A. Poe, and \n                   Henry C. Watson identified as\n                  editors.","An account of the Poe-Outis controversy that was\n                  serialized in the Broadway Journal and the New York Evening Mirror.","From Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine,\n                  XXVIII, 116-122. Installments of both items.","This reprinting of Poe's article which appeared\n                  originally in the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times on\n                  10 July was misdated by Ingram as 27 June.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXIX,\n                  245-248. An installment.","Biographical-critical sketch of Poe in \"Our\n                  Classic Niche.\"","Article publishes Poe's letter of December 30,\n                  1846, responding to Willis's report of the pitiful\n                  condition of Poe and Virginia.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXII,\n                  178-179. An installment.","An adverse review.","Comments on \n                   New York society and mentions \n                   John Inman, \n                   Rufus Griswold, \n                   Lewis Gaylord Clark, \n                   Grace Greenwood, \n                   Lydia M. Child, \n                   Elizabeth F. Ellet, \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith, \n                   Frances S. Osgood, and \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller. On verso\n                  is a \n                   Henry Clay letter, 12 September\n                  1848.","Editor introduces this 9-stanza second printing of\n                  the poem from which, at the suggestion of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe had\n                  omitted the final stanza, subsequently restored.","Willis suggests that Poe be given a competent\n                  annuity so that he can be done with editing magazines\n                  and devote his time to belles lettres. Poe's \"For\n                  Annie\" was printed following this paragraph, but it\n                  is missing from the item.","Mrs. Whitman shuffled stanzas and altered the text\n                  of this clipped copy to make it approximate a version\n                  of this poem entitled \"Stanzas for Music\" published\n                  in the American Metropolitan Magazine for February\n                  1849.","From Graham's American Monthly Magazine, XXXVI,\n                  224-226.","The advertisement includes a derogatory paragraph\n                  about Poe's life and character quoted from Fraser's\n                  Magazine and a favorable statement by \n                   William Gowans testifying to\n                  Poe's personal sincerity and well-ordered domestic\n                  life.","15-page booklet made up of the second and third\n                  installments of Savage's article which appeared in\n                  the Democratic Review. Annotated by Ingram.","Senator Anthony notes that an edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's poems is\n                  forthcoming and that \n                   Rufus Griswold has expressed his\n                  approbation of its title poem, \"Hours of Life.\"","Annotated by \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","These verses are said to have been dictated by Poe\n                  through the medium of \n                   Lydia Tenney of Georgetown, MA.\n                  Published in \n                   Henry Spicer, Sights and Sounds:\n                  The Mystery of the Day, 1853; reprinted in an\n                  unsigned article, \"Manifestations of the Spirit!\" in\n                  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1853, pp.\n                  157-164.","The pages are annotated and the poems heavily\n                  emended by Mrs. Whitman before she sent them to\n                  Ingram in 1874. The penciled notes which were added\n                  and enclosed in this folder were made by Professor \n                   Armistead Churchill Gordon, Jr.,\n                  in 1952.","Text of the poem is introduced by a favorable\n                  editorial comment quoted from the Boston\n                  Commonwealth.","From Biographical Magazine, VII (May 1855),\n                  211-220. An inaccurate biographical article on Poe in\n                  \"Lives of the Illustrious.\"","From Train, III (April 1857), 193-198. Thomas\n                  defends Poe's character and bluntly suggests that \n                   Rufus Griswold tampered with\n                  Poe's letters and papers.","Mrs. Whitman compares the beauty of autumn in \n                   Providence with the fairest\n                  scenery in \n                   France and southern \n                   England. Article mentions: \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller, \n                   Anne C. Lynch Botta, and \n                   Ellery Channing.","From Russell's Magazine, II (November 1857),\n                  161-173.","Willis describes Poe's appearance and manner when\n                  he worked as a paragraphist on the newspaper he and \n                   George P. Morris edited.","Translation into Spanish of Poe's \"Some Words with\n                  a Mummy.\"","Willis prints a letter from an unnamed\n                  correspondent in \n                   Waterloo, NY, who offers\n                  financial help for \n                   Maria Clemm and for a monument to\n                  be erected over Poe's grave. Willis adds his own\n                  tribute to Poe printed earlier and appends a few\n                  paragraphs in which he writes that he loved Poe.","J. E. E. writes the Editor asking if Poe had\n                  copied \"The Raven\" from the Persian, as a Mr. \n                   [John Dunmore?] Lang, \"the\n                  Eastern traveller,\" \n                   [John Dunmore Lang] asserted in\n                  the London Star. The Editor replies that the poem was\n                  Poe's imaginative creation.","In a letter dated 21 August 1855, \n                   Neilson Poe thinks the place\n                  where Poe is now buried is singularly appropriate,\n                  but if \n                   Maria Clemm wishes, he will\n                  consent to Poe's body being moved to \n                   Greenwood Cemetery in \n                   Brooklyn. He is now about to\n                  have a slab placed over the grave, with the dates of\n                  Poe's birth and death, and a suitable\n                  inscription.","Willis prints a translation of passages from a\n                  review of Poe's works in the German Monthly.","Fairfield writes in praise of Poe's imaginative\n                  powers.","Enthusiastic critical article in which Fairfield\n                  calls for a new edition of Poe's masterpieces and\n                  suggests a table of contents for the volume.","Copy signed by Mrs. Whitman.","This unsigned item, reprinted from the Mobile\n                  Tribune, comments upon appraisals of Poe published in\n                  the Home Journal and announces that \n                   William J. Widdleton will bring\n                  out a volume of Poe's masterpieces.","Mrs. Smith recalls Poe's personal appearance and\n                  mannerisms.","Dr. Snodgrass responds to \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith's\n                  reminiscences of Poe published in Beadle's Monthly\n                  for February 1867.","1/2 column clipped from an unidentified newspaper,\n                  printing \"extracts\" from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass'\n                  article in Beadle's Monthly for March 1867.","Gibson had been a classmate of Poe at West Point.\n                  Item is annotated by Ingram.","Item accompanied by note by \n                   Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 April\n                  1965, 1 p. Ingram was of the opinion that \n                   Thomas Cottrell Clarke was the\n                  author of this article, but in 1965 Professor Mabbott\n                  disputed him, declaring that Major \n                   Mordecai M. Noah had written it.\n                  Mabbott, however, made no attempt to explain why the\n                  publisher had waited nearly twenty years after Noah's\n                  death to print the item.","Mrs. Whitman describes evenings spent with\n                  distinguished company in the home of \n                   Albert G. Greene in Providence\n                  and discusses \n                   Sarah Margaret Fuller's\n                  conversation.","The poem is from Victor Hugo's \"A Des Oiseaux\n                  Envolves.\"","Writer furnishes a nasty picture of Poe in the\n                  course of criticizing Southern literature. The item\n                  may be the work of \n                   Kate Field.","In forwarding this clipping to Ingram in 1874,\n                  Mrs. Whitman wrote in the margin: \"You must not think\n                  that this is a literal transcript from any canvas but\n                  rather from a picture seen in the mind's eye[,]\n                  Horatio.\"","The \n                   J. Shaver item is a letter to the\n                  New Orleans Times claiming to have found a letter to\n                  a Mr. Daniels of Philadelphia in which Poe admits\n                  stealing \"The Raven\" from \n                   Samuel Fenwick. The \"J\" item is\n                  a letter, pasted on a sheet with the first, from a\n                  purported classmate of Poe to the Editor of the\n                  Richmond Dispatch denying the charge.","Article prints comments upon Poe, \n                   William Leggett, \n                   John J. Audubon, \n                   John Howard Payne, \n                   McDonald Clarke, \n                   Aaron Burr, \n                   Edwin Forrest, and \n                   Fanny Kemble made by the late \n                   William Gowans in his \"Western\n                  Memorabilia.\"","Obituary of \n                   Maria Clemm, who died on 16\n                  February 1871.","A severe summing up of Poe as a critic. The item\n                  is annotated by both \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman and\n                  Ingram.","An account attributed to \n                   John R. Thompson of Poe's\n                  drinking a glass of brandy at one swallow after\n                  having previously drunk thirteen mint juleps.","In return for a loan of $5, Poe allegedly flung\n                  the MS. of \"Annabel Lee\" to \n                   John R. Thompson, remarking that\n                  it was \"a little thing I knocked off last night\n                  --it's not much.\"","Same as Item 560.","Reprints \"Resurrexi,\" purportedly a posthumous\n                  poem by Poe delivered through the agency of the\n                  Spiritualist medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Reprints \"The Kingdom,\" an imitation of \"Ulalume\"\n                  which is purportedly a posthumous poem by Poe\n                  delivered through the agency of the Spiritualist\n                  medium \n                   Lizzie Doten.","Surveys both portraits and daguerreotypes of\n                  Poe.","The poem is addressed to \"R. B. B.\"","Reports visit by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to Poe's\n                  grave in \n                   Baltimore and his appeal for a\n                  monument to be erected over Poe's remains.","Reports a lecture by \n                   John Reuben Thompson before the \n                   YMCA on Poe as a critic, a\n                  romancer, and a poet. Quotes from the close of the\n                  lecture.","One clipping reports from the Newark Advertiser\n                  that Poe's sister is residing in the utmost poverty\n                  at \n                   Hicks Landing on the \n                   James River in \n                   Virginia. The other clipping\n                  declares that she is now poor, aged, and helpless and\n                  is residing in \n                   Baltimore.","These pages are the single known copy of this\n                  article which is based almost entirely upon\n                  information about Poe that Ingram had begun receiving\n                  from \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman in January\n                  1874. He had previously published an article called\n                  \"New Facts about \n                   Edgar Allan Poe \" in the Mirror\n                  on 24 January 1874, but no known copy of it has\n                  survived.","Reports \n                   Rosalie Poe's straitened\n                  circumstances and requests contributions of clothing\n                  and comforts of life to be sent to her at the \n                   Epiphany Church Home, \n                   Washington, DC.","A \"traduction nouvelle\" accompanied by a grisly\n                  illustration.","\"B. G. T.\" inquires about the authorship of the\n                  opening lines to Poe's first \"To Helen.\" In his\n                  reply, the Editor urges the inquirer to show his\n                  appreciation of Poe by helping to keep his neglected\n                  grave in order and adds that the Counting Room of the\n                  Post will receive subscriptions for that purpose.","An offer by \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia to erect a monument\n                  over Poe's grave has been declined by friends and\n                  relatives of the poet, who prefer that the memorial\n                  be the one proposed by the teachers and public school\n                  officials, as well as admirers of Poe in \n                   Baltimore, who have already\n                  placed a considerable sum for it in the hands of the\n                  proper committee.","After describing the efforts by \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne to raise\n                  money for the monument to Poe, the article offers a\n                  mixed account of Poe's character and genius.","It was Mr. \n                   J. C. Derby of \n                   Baltimore who suggested to \n                   George W. Childs that a suitable\n                  monument be erected over Poe's grave.","Ingram's article appears in the Gentleman's\n                  Magazine for May and in the Temple Bar for June\n                  1874.","Calls attention to Ingram's article on Poe\n                  appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine for May and in\n                  the Temple Bar for June 1874.","Lamb describes the Poe cottage and furnishes an\n                  illustration captioned \"The House in which Poe Wrote\n                 'The Raven'.\"","Item notes three upcoming lectures by \n                   William F. Gill, one of which is\n                  entitled \"The Romance of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","One installment of a translation of Poe's \"Hans\n                  Pfaall\" accompanied by an illustration of a balloon's\n                  ascent.","Rosalie Poe died in \n                   Epiphany Church Home in \n                   Washington on this date at 68\n                  years of age.","Rosalie Poe came to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home on 1 March.\n                  Following her funeral on 23 July, she was buried at\n                  the \n                   Rock Creek Cemetery.","A favorable review of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's new\n                  edition of Poe's poems.","A favorable review of the book and a censorious\n                  account of the \"tragic\" life of an \"erratic genius.\"\n                  The clipping is annotated by Ingram.","John Scott of \n                   Pennsylvania presented before the\n                  Senate a memorial of the publisher of Godey's Lady's\n                  Book in which he set forth alleged unjust\n                  discriminations against periodicals in the new\n                  postage law.","Review of \n                   William F. Gill's article \" \n                   Edgar Poe and His Biographer, \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, \" in Lotos\n                  Leaves, Boston, 1875, pp. 279-306.","Clarke died in \n                   Camden, NJ, on 23 December\n                  1874.","A sketch of Poe's life abounding in inaccurate\n                  details. Possibly the work of Dr. \n                   Roland S. Houghton.","George W. Childs has offered to\n                  erect a suitable monument over Poe's grave, allowing\n                  the money already collected for one to be kept as a\n                  maintenance fund.","Despite the report that three \n                   Baltimore editors deny genius to\n                  Poe and wish he had died and been buried somewhere\n                  else, \n                   Paul H. Hayne and \n                   George W. Childs still want to\n                  erect a monument over his grave in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram denies to an American correspondent that he\n                  intends to take to lecturing and that he is not going\n                  to make a lecture tour of the \n                   United States.","Funds for a monument are to be gathered by\n                  subscription and supplemented by a gift from \n                   George W. Childs of \n                   Philadelphia.","Review of Volume III, Poems and Essays, from The\n                  Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by\n                  Ingram and published by \n                   A. and C. Black, \n                   Edinburgh. The reviewer\n                  considers prose to have been Poe's \"strength\" and\n                  verse his \"byework.\"","A slashing attack upon Poe and upon \n                   Moncure D. Conway's defense of\n                  him recently published in the Cincinnati Commercial\n                  Tribune.","In answer to \n                   Erl Rygenhoeg's comments [Item\n                  597], \"S. H. K.\" of Washington, DC, writes that Miss\n                  Poe herself had doubtless furnished her name to the \n                   Epiphany Church Home authorities\n                  as \"Rose\" and not \"Rosalie.\"","The reviewer believes that Stoddard's Memoir of\n                  Poe adds something of interest to the volume but that\n                  Poe's poems need no praise, for they will live\n                  forever on the lips and in the hearts of his\n                  readers.","Comments upon an article about Poe written by \n                   Moncure D. Conway.","The commentator finds Ingram's article a\n                  compromise between \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's bitterness\n                  and Ingram's customary admiration.","The commentator labels Ingram's article a defense\n                  of Poe against \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's posthumous\n                  slanders.","The Athenaeum reports that Poe took the name\n                  \"Lenore\" and the burden \"Nevermore\" from two poems\n                  that \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson had\n                  published in The Gem in 1831.","Enclosed in Item 19. Colonel Dwight was a close\n                  personal friend of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","The lecture was delivered at Parker Memorial Hall,\n                   Boston, on 2 April 1875. Pasted\n                  to this notice is another paragraph stating that\n                  Professor Buchanan had read a chapter of his\n                  forthcoming work, Philosophy and Philosophers, to a\n                  coterie of literary gentlemen assembled in his home\n                  in \n                   Louisville, KY. It was to\n                  Buchanan that \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman submitted her\n                  MS. of \"To Helen\" given to her by Poe, for a\n                  psychometric reading. He did not return the MS. to\n                  her, and it has never been located. See Items 241,\n                  253, 262.","Reports Colonel \n                   Robert Mayo's memories of\n                  youthful swimming feats he shared with Poe in \n                   Richmond.","A biographical-critical article based upon\n                  Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works. Dalby\n                  notes omissions and suggests needed changes to be\n                  made in the next edition.","The article compares the posthumous reputations of\n                  the two poets.","The item notices the second installment of \n                   E. C. Stedman's \"Minor Victorian\n                  Poets\" in Scribner's Magazine and quotes with\n                  approval a long paragraph from \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's \"A\n                  Madman of Letters,\" which was an essay on Poe\n                  published in Scribner's Monthly for October.","A biographical-critical article.","P. 607 carries a facsimile of what purports to be\n                  a holograph copy of \"Alone,\" signed by Poe and dated\n                  17 March 1829. Ingram's notation on it reads, \"Not\n                  Poe's calligraphy.\"","Eulogy evoked by the tardy honor done to Poe's\n                  ashes by the plans to erect a monument over his\n                  hitherto unmarked grave.","Article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  reproduced from a photograph by \n                   C. S. Mosher of \n                   Baltimore. On the obverse of\n                  this clipping there is a paragraph stating that the\n                  monument is already in place over Poe's grave.","These verses were written by \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe who printed them in the Broadway Journal\n                  in 1845. Because Poe's MS. copy survives, the poem\n                  has been proffered from time to time as Poe's own\n                  composition. See Item 678.","Describes the condition of Poe's remains when\n                  exhumed.","Two sonnets in tribute to \"Poe\" and\n                  \"Whittier.\"","After describing the monument, the\n                  Constitutionalist takes credit for having given\n                  impetus to the movement to place it over Poe's\n                  remains, arguing that its story of \n                   Paul Hamilton Hayne's\n                  description of the neglected grave had been widely\n                  circulated and thereby brought to the attention of \n                   J. C. Derby, who in turn was\n                  instrumental in convincing \n                   George W. Childs, the \n                   Philadelphia philanthropist, to\n                  underwrite the expense of the monument.","In this long letter to the Editor, dated 29\n                  September 1875, Mrs. Whitman cuttingly refutes \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  arguments, published in Scribner's Monthly in October\n                  1875, that Poe was an epileptic, a \"madman of\n                  letters.\"","Dr. Okie had attended Poe in Mrs. Whitman's home\n                  in \n                   Providence in October 1848.","In this weak reply to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's spirited\n                  defense of Poe, Fairfield publicly repents of his\n                  former admiration of the poet.","Marvin supports \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's attack on \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  allegations against Poe.","In this letter to the Editor of the Tribune, the\n                  former editor of Sartain's Magazine discusses the\n                  dates of Poe's writing \"The Bells\" and \"Annabel Lee\"\n                  and gives dates of the various MSS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  which Poe submitted to Sartain's.","The author expresses a sense of the fitness in\n                  erecting a memorial to Poe.","The article furnishes a history of the monument\n                  and quotes Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death. \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman has inserted\n                  marginal comments and has added in a footnote to this\n                  clipping: \"We have hardly got the straight story yet,\n                  I fancy --the truth and nothing but the truth. Still\n                  it is very interesting.\"","A partial reprint of the article in the New York\n                  Herald, 28 October [Item 625].","Prints Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's account of Poe's\n                  last hours and death.","Fairfield claims that Poe suffered from cerebral\n                  epilepsy. One of two copies of this item is heavily\n                  annotated by Ingram.","The monument to be erected over Poe's grave is\n                  being manufactured by \n                   Hugh Sisson and Company of \n                   Baltimore.","The article describes the monument and notes that\n                  Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd is to be in\n                  charge of the dedication ceremonies.","Addressing \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  contention, Dr. Okie observes that if Poe had indeed\n                  been an epileptic, then in the interest of once again\n                  having such glorious poetic manifestations, it would\n                  be well if the malady were to prove epidemic among\n                  the poets.","The Republican marks the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument by reprinting an essay by \n                   A. E. Kroeger which it had\n                  carried eleven years earlier. Kroeger is inaccurate\n                  in his facts.","The article compares the difficulties \n                   Thomas Hood and Poe experienced\n                  in getting these two poems into print.","The article is accompanied by a picture of Poe\n                  taken by \n                   Stanton and Butler of \n                   Baltimore from a daguerreotype,\n                  pictures of \n                   Maria Clemm and the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, and facsimiles of\n                  letters to \n                   Sara S. Rice from \n                   William Cullen Bryant, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   James Russell Lowell.","Portions of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848, taken from advanced sheets of \n                   William F. Gill's \"New Facts\n                  about \n                   Edgar A. Poe, \" to be published\n                  in Laurel Leaves.","Sympathetic biographical-critical article evoked\n                  by the dedication of Poe's monument in Baltimore.","Fairfield replies to Dr. \n                   Fred K. Marvin's article, \"The\n                  Poet Not an Epileptic,\" which had appeared in the\n                  Tribune on 18 October 1875.","Program of the exercises held at the dedication of\n                  the Poe monument. Article includes texts of poems by \n                   William Winter, \n                   E. Norman Gunnison, and \n                   Sarah J. Bolton and letters from \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson,\n                  Longfellow, \n                   Sylvanus D. Lewis, \n                   James Russell Lowell, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Walt Whitman, and \n                   John G. Whittier.","An account of the exercises, the letters read, a\n                  list of important personages attending, and the\n                  addresses made by Professor \n                   William Elliot, Jr., Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd, \n                   John H. B. Latrobe.","An account of the ceremonies.","A sketch of Poe's life and work.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","Account of the ceremonies.","Account of the unveiling of the monument at Poe's\n                  grave.","\"The atmosphere of the occasion was rather that of\n                  a grand triumphal pageant than of a funeral\n                  service.\"","Includes pictures of Poe and of the monument.","George W. Spence, the sexton who\n                  officiated at Poe's burial in 1849, superintended the\n                  exhumations and reburials of Poe and \n                   Maria Clemm in 1875.","Satirical verses about the Northern poets who\n                  refused to attend the dedication ceremonies of the\n                  Poe monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Account of the ceremonies, including an excerpt\n                  from Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd's address and\n                  a letter from an unidentified New England poet\n                  describing the occasion.","In German. A biographical-critical essay.","A brief survey of Poe's life and reputation\n                  accompanied by a reproduction of the Stanton and\n                  Butler photograph.","In remarks prompted by the dedication of the Poe\n                  monument in \n                   Baltimore, Davidson said, \"In\n                  the future, when we wish, in one single, stinging\n                  word, to stigmatize a being who has exhausted all his\n                  resources of malignity, falsehood, and dishonor\n                  against a dead man who had trusted him, we will say\n                  that he Griswoldized him.\"","Mrs. Whitman explains the efforts being made to\n                  settle dates and chronological order of Poe's poems.\n                  She mentions Ingram's article on \"Politian\" in the\n                  New London Magazine (reprinted in the Southern\n                  Magazine, November 1875) and alludes to \n                   Algernon Charles Swinburne's\n                  growth as a poet.","Among many invitations to visit the \n                   United States, Ingram has\n                  received one from the \n                   Alumni Society of the University of\n                  Virginia asking that he be a guest at the\n                  semi-centennial of the University.","Reports the claim by the Athenaeum that the name\n                  Lenore and the phrase \"Nevermore\" were suggested to\n                  Poe by works by \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson published\n                  in The Gem in 1831.","Repeats \n                   Francis Gerry Fairfield's\n                  conflicting stories, published in Scribner's Monthly,\n                  October 1875, about how \"The Raven\" was composed.","A parody of Poe's \"The Bells.\"","Ten parodies of Poe's work (\"The Ruined Palace,\"\n                  \"Dream-Mere,\" \"Israfiddlestrings,\" \"The Ghouls in the\n                  Belfry,\" \"Hullaloo,\" \"To Any,\" \"Hannibal Leigh,\"\n                  \"Raving,\" \"The Monster Maggot,\" \"Poetic Fragments\")\n                  and one criticism of current efforts to honor Poe\n                  (\"Under-Lines\").","An edition of 240 copies has been printed of \n                   Stephane Mallarme's translation\n                  of \"The Raven.\" The text is illustrated by \n                   Edouard Manet.","The \n                   Baltimore press is disgusted with\n                  \"those literary'dead beats' \" who for a quarter of a\n                  century have been \"worrying and wearying\" editors\n                  with pretended sympathy for Poe, especially those\n                  \"dead beats\" in \n                   Baltimore who have been agitating\n                  for a monument over his grave, all of this just to\n                  get their names into print.","An Englishman has contributed twenty sixpenny\n                  stamps to the Poe monument fund.","Fordham citizens are surprised\n                  that nothing has been done to move \n                   Virginia Poe's remains from \n                   Fordham to rest with those of her\n                  husband in \n                   Baltimore. The Sun suggests that\n                  the \n                   Fordham citizens take steps to\n                  effect the removal.","Report of the controversy between Ingram and \n                   William F. Gill over originality\n                  of material used by Ingram in his Memoir in \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, A Memorial\n                  Volume.","The Carolina Spartan attributes these verses to\n                  Poe, but they are the work of \n                   Abijah M. Ide, Jr., of \n                   South Attleboro, MA, who sent\n                  them to Poe in 1845 as Editor of the Broadway Journal. See Item 616.","The daughter of an old black servant of the Allans\n                  is reported to have said, \"Mammy often tole me he\n                  [Poe] was the very wust child she had ever seed, but\n                  he had an extra head.\"","Among other things, Mrs. Smith declares that Poe\n                  was beaten to death by the emissary of a woman whose\n                  letters he had refused to return.","Obituary of Dr. \n                   Roland Stebbins Houghton who died\n                  in \n                   Hartford, CT, on Thursday, 23\n                  March 1876.","Mrs. Whitman's poem, retitled \"Epigaea\" in 1878\n                  edition of her works, is addressed to Professor\n                  Bailey, of \n                   Brown University, and his is in\n                  reply.","A letter to the Editor, 10 April 1876, responding\n                  to the story by \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith that Poe\n                  was beaten to death and offering her own account of\n                  his last visit to \n                   Richmond in 1849.","Criticizes \n                   Elizabeth Oakes Smith for her\n                  story about Poe's having been beaten to death that\n                  appeared in the Home Journal, 15 March 1876.","Lathrop explores the \"American-ness\" of these\n                  three writers.","Mrs. Whitman describes a walk through the \n                   Old North Burying Grounds in \n                   Providence and a visit to the\n                  grave of her friend, \n                   Gamaliel Lyman Dwight. Mrs.\n                  Whitman was buried in this cemetery on 30 June\n                  1878.","A biographical-critical article in which the\n                  author writes that Poe's death occurred when he\n                  \"stopped to drink with some friends\" in \n                   Baltimore while on his way to \n                   Philadelphia to take his\n                  mother-in-law, Mrs. Clew [sic], to his wedding in \n                   Richmond.","The article publishes a letter from \n                   Susan Archer Talley\n                  Weiss correcting statements made by \n                   W. E. H. Searcy [Item 687] about\n                  Poe's last days in \n                   Richmond and his proposed\n                  marriage to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton and\n                  correcting Searcy's misspelling of \n                   Maria Clemm's name.","Lengthy account of Poe's drunkenness and his\n                  behavior before a \n                   Boston audience. In a marginal\n                  note, Ingram assigned authorship of the article to \n                   Charles F. Briggs.","Dr. Moran's account of Poe's last hours and\n                  death.","Ingram found the first known copy of Tamerlane and\n                  Other Poems in a bale of pamphlets shipped from \n                   America to the \n                   British Museum Library in 1866,\n                  thus achieving an important prize which enabled him\n                  to prove that \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard and \n                   Rufus W. Griswold had erred when\n                  they denied that Poe had printed a volume of poems in\n                  1827.","Article publishes excerpt from Reverend Dr.\n                  Brooks' elegy for \n                   John Neal, who died on 20 June\n                  1876.","Article publishes resolutions on the death of \n                   John Neal made on behalf of the \n                   Cumberland Bar Association.","Browne asks if newspapers which have reprinted\n                  Ingram's copyrighted article \"The Suppressed Poetry\n                  of Poe\" have violated literary comity.","Mrs. Whitman's recalls her three meetings with\n                  Neal and a story of his having published a novel in\n                  1823 entitled Randolph which contained \"certain\n                  strictures\" on the \n                   Baltimore lawyer \n                   William Pinckney, who had died\n                  just as the volume came from the press. Challenged to\n                  a duel by Pinckney's son, Edward, Neal refused and\n                  was posted a coward. Within six weeks after the\n                  challenge, Neal brought out Errata, another\n                  two-volume novel, which purported to be the\n                  confessions of \"a coward\" which tells the story of\n                  the challenge and publishes the correspondence\n                  concerning it.","Having discovered the first known copy of\n                  Tamerlane and Other Poems, Ingram is able in this\n                  article to collate the texts of all four volumes of\n                  Poe's poetry for the first time.","Ingram announces in the first of these short\n                  articles that he is unable to answer questions about\n                  his essay on Poe's bibliography [Item 698] because he\n                  is travelling. In the second article he corrects some\n                  of the errors in an essay on \"The Lunar Hoax\" by a \n                   Richard Anthony Proctor which\n                  appeared in the Belgravia (London) for August [Item\n                  700].","Messrs. \n                   Turnbull Brothers of \n                   Baltimore will issue on about 1\n                  December \n                   Edgar Allen [sic] Poe : a\n                  Memorial Volume prepared by Miss Rice.","John Neal answered \n                   Sidney Smith's notorious\n                  question, \"Who reads an American book?\" by going to \n                   London and establishing himself\n                  as a writer.","This favorable review of the Memorial Volume has\n                  high praise for Ingram as a pioneer in vindicating\n                  Poe's character from \n                   Rufus W. Griswold's\n                  slanders.","Hayne furnishes a very favorable review of the\n                  Memorial Volume edited by \n                   Sara S. Rice.","This article combines a complimentary review of\n                  the \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : A Memorial\n                  Volume and a scathing review of \n                   Eugene L. Didier's Life and\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe. [These reviews\n                  were not altogether Ingram's work; nevertheless, he\n                  clearly had a major role in them. He had access to\n                  the columns of the Civil Service Review, and he had a\n                  \"friend\" to whom he could give notes and suggestions\n                  for reviews, thus enabling him, if occasion demanded,\n                  to deny that he was the reviewer.]","Mary Hewitt declares that\n                  Griswold's jealousy of Poe's relationship with an\n                  unnamed woman [ \n                   Frances S. Osgood ] was the basis\n                  of his hatred for Poe.","Fairfield surveys recent editions of Poe's works\n                  and publications about Poe by Ingram, \n                   Edward L. Didier, and \n                   Charles Baudelaire.","Enclosed in Item 322. A sonnet celebrating Poe's\n                  love for \n                   Annie Richmond.","Portion of an article.","These lines were deliberately forged by Riley to\n                  gain attention, as he admitted, by pretending to have\n                  found them written by Poe in an old book and left as\n                  payment for a night's lodging in a small hotel in \n                   Chesterfield, VA.","Story of the discovery of \"Leonainie,\" taken from\n                  the Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","The unidentified writer denies that Poe wrote\n                  \"Leonainie.\"","Exposes \n                   James Whitcomb Riley as the\n                  author of \"Leonainie,\" a poem he attributed to Poe.\n                  When asked by an Eastern publisher for the MS., Riley\n                  employed an expert penman to copy the verses on the\n                  flyleaf of an old copy of Ainsworth's Dictionary,\n                  imitating the facsimile of \"Alone\" that had recently\n                  been published in Scribner's Monthly.","A biographical-critical sketch.","Refuting the account given by an unsigned article\n                  in the latest number of the Library Table (30 August\n                  1877, pp. 149-150), Mrs. Whitman retells the story of\n                  the Poe-Ellet \"scandal.\"","Article tells the story of how Ingram \"discovered\"\n                  this work by Poe in Burton's Gentleman's\n                  Magazine.","The unidentified writer, very likely \n                   Eugene L. Didier, dismisses the\n                  claim that Ingram had discovered \"The Journal of\n                  Julius Rodman\" and identifies the tale not as a\n                  \"romance\" but as merely a resume of explorations.","Comments on Ingram's discovery of Poe's\n                  \"romance.\"","Paragraph quotes from a posthumous article by the\n                  late \n                   Charles F. Briggs, \"The\n                  Personality of Poe,\" published in the Independent, 13\n                  December 1877.","Briggs accuses Poe of being a terror to his wife\n                  and his mother-in-law when he was drunk.","Item announces a liberal reward for the return of\n                  a lost MS. of \"The Bells\" to \n                   N. C. Sanborn, a Lowell\n                  photographer. Poe had given the MS. to Mrs. Richmond,\n                  and she had given it to Sanborn to make a copy for\n                  Ingram.","Reprints for its \"richness\" and \"local interest\" a\n                  derisive paragraph from the Detroit Free Press about\n                  the Courier's advertisement for the lost MS. of \"The\n                  Bells\" [Item 722]. Because the Courier failed to\n                  identify the MS., the Free Press warns the Lowell\n                  postmaster to \"prepare to wrestle with several tons\n                  of manuscript poetry.\"","This clipping is pasted together with Item 741 and\n                  with two undated clippings, both paragraphs, from the\n                  Argonaut, one denying that Ingram had discovered a\n                  new Poe \"romance\" in \"Julius Rodman,\" the other\n                  repeating a tart remark by \n                   Ambrose Bierce about Poe's \"The\n                  Bells.\"","A biographical-critical survey.","A news reporter writes of Poe's drunken\n                  conversation about his Eureka and of his being a hero\n                  to an old colored \n                   Richmond barber.","Takes issue with the severity with which \n                   William F. Gill attacks the\n                  veracity of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold in his recently\n                  published biography of Poe. \"The truth is, there are\n                  bowlders of fact still verifiable as to Poe's\n                  unprincipled conduct on various occasions that render\n                  the vindications of Messers. Gill, Ingram and \n                   Eugene L. Didier subject for sly\n                  laughter in well-informed literary circles. And some\n                  day, in a fit of disgust at such puny Boswellism,\n                  some clever litterateur will collect and print them,\n                  brushing away the theories of these rhapsodizing\n                  biographers as if they were cobwebs.\"","Mrs. \n                   Jane Clark of \n                   Louisville, KY, relates her\n                  memories of Poe, whom she knew particularly well\n                  during his last two visits to \n                   Richmond.","Annotated by Ingram: \"A pack of lies.\"","Reports that Mrs. Weiss' reminiscences \"are said\n                  to be full of interest.\"","The lost MS. of \"The Bells\" [See Items 722-723]\n                  has been found.","A caustic review of the 4th edition.","The Ingram article is \"Unknown Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Poe, \" in New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Item notes publications of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence on \n                   Edgar A. Poe \" in Appleton's\n                  Journal, IV (May 1878), 421-429, and comments that\n                  the letters Ingram publishes there \"would blast a\n                  very much sounder reputation that Poe ever had for\n                  propriety of conduct and morality of mind.\"","Reprints Ingram's article on Poe's unpublished\n                  correspondence from the New Quarterly. See Item\n                  735.","Favorable notice of Ingram's \"Unpublished\n                  Correspondence of Edgar Poe,\" the New Quarterly\n                  Magazine, XIX.","Mrs. Whitman, who died on 27 June, had requested\n                  that no notice be sent to the newspapers until after\n                  her funeral. The items describe the services and\n                  burial.","A sonnet enclosed to Ingram in letter from \n                   Rose Peckham, 3 July [Item\n                  337].","This clipping on the death of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman is pasted\n                  together with Item 724.","Quotes a portion of Poe's letter to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, 18 October\n                  1848.","Ingram draws parallels between \"The Raven\" and \n                   Albert Pike's \"Isadore.\"","Denies the report that Poe was expelled from the \n                   University of Virginia.","In German. Katscher's translation of a\n                  biographical sketch of Poe by Ingram.","Ingram accuses \n                   William F. Gill of plagiarism and\n                  declares that his book is a gross infringement upon\n                  Ingram's copyrights.","Hunter writes that Dr. \n                   John Bransby reported that \"Edgar\n                  Allan\" was \"intelligent, wayward, and wilful,\" and\n                  believed the Allans spoiled him with too much pocket\n                  money. The portrait of Dr. Bransby in \"William\n                  Wilson\" is \"quite as much a product of Poe's\n                  imagination as is the school-house itself.\"","Ingram corrects \n                   William E. Hunter's statements\n                  about Poe and Dr. \n                   John Bransby [Item 747]. The\n                  Ingram item is preceded by letters from Reverend \n                   Richard B. Porson Kidd and \n                   John T. D. Kidd refuting Hunter's\n                  remark that their father, the Reverend \n                   Thomas Kidd, flogged his\n                  students at the school at \n                   Stoke Newington.","The sexton who supervised the removal of Poe's\n                  body from its original grave reported that Poe's\n                  brain had dried and hardened so much that when the\n                  sexton picked up his skull, it \"rattled around inside\n                  just like a lump of mud.\"","Houghton, Osgood and Company, \n                   Boston, published this edition\n                  of Mrs. Whitman's poems which she had prepared\n                  shortly before her death in June.","Long, favorable review.","Hunter sent these verses to Ingram for insertion\n                  in some English magazine. See Item 342.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian tells a\n                  story to a reporter about Poe's writing \"The Gold\n                  Bug\" at the Widow Meagher's place, about being\n                  cooped, drugged, and voted together with Poe in \n                   Baltimore, and about Poe's death\n                  from laudanum.","Poe's \"destiny\" was sad not because he was an\n                  unappreciated genius but because he had \"a totally\n                  unbalanced character.\"","This is installment II in Higginson's \"Short\n                  History of American Authors.\"","A favorable review of the posthumous edition of \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman's Poems\n                  (1879).","The story of an old \n                   Richmond Negro who recited Poe's\n                  poetry from memory, claiming to have been taught by\n                  Poe himself.","\"The First Meeting\" and \"Beneath the Elm,\"\n                  identified as \"original poetry,\" were reprinted in\n                  the Home Journal on 11 February 1880.","An office boy in the offices of the Broadway Journal thirty-five years earlier, Crane writes that\n                  he saw Poe drunk on only one occasion.","In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems\n                  into German (\"To Helen,\" \"The Raven,\" \"To One in\n                  Paradise\"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.","The edition will appear in three volumes.","Reprint of a portion of \n                   Douglass Sherley's 4th \"Oddity\n                  Paper\" from the Virginia University Magazine, XIX\n                  (March and April 1880).","George denies that he and Poe were ever\n                  roommates.","Challenges the account of Poe's burial given by\n                  Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass in Beadle's\n                  Monthly for March 1867.","Tells the story of a poem Poe wrote as a young man\n                  to a lady who had broken her engagement with him and\n                  of a second poem he wrote when she married someone\n                  else.","Annotated heavily by Ingram.","Reports Ingram's rough handling of \n                   E. C. Stedman and \n                   William F. Gill as biographers of\n                  Poe in his letter to the Athenaeum.","In German. Favorable review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters, and Opinions.","Poe's English school house is to be destroyed to\n                  make room for a row of shops.","Annotated by Ingram.","Though generally favorable, Conway takes Ingram\n                  sharply to task for various inaccuracies and\n                  inelegancies of style.","Heavily annotated by Ingram.","Cites Ingram's comment in his new life of Poe.","Cites Minto's comments in the Fortnightly Review\n                  [Item 775] agreeing with Ingram that Poe was too\n                  scrupulous as a reviewer.","Ingram bitterly denies assertions made about him\n                  and his work on Poe in two articles that were\n                  published in the Independent, 24 June 1880.","Extract from a favorable review of Ingram's new\n                  biography of Poe printed in the British\n                  Quarterly.","Commendatory review of Ingram's new biography of\n                  Poe.","Biographical-critical survey.","The first issue of a New York \"critical, social\n                  and satirical\" magazine. An unsigned article entitled\n                  \"New York Bohemians. \n                   Richard H. Stoddard, \" is on p.\n                  3.","Joint review of recent biographies by Ingram and\n                  Stedman.","Reviews of Ingram's new biography and of \n                   Richard Henry Stoddard's Memoir\n                  of Poe.","Lists those classmates of Poe who are still living\n                  and a number of his contemporaries now dead who were\n                  prominent men.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis, who died in\n                  London on 24 November 1880. Another obituary of Mrs.\n                  Lewis, unsigned, clipped from an unidentified London\n                  newspaper is included with this item.","Reports that Ingram has a full account of Poe's\n                  adventures in \n                   France which he dictated to \"a\n                  lady-friend\" ( \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton ) at \n                   Fordham.","Giving an account of Poe's death in \n                   Baltimore, Browne quotes in full\n                  the note from \n                   Joseph W. Walker to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October\n                  1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and\n                  condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs.\n                  Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late\n                  husband.","Reports a true story said to rival Poe's \"Murders\n                  in the Rue Morgue\": a red ape murdered his master in\n                  a Venezuelan mining camp in 1877.","A survey of Poe's reputation in \n                   America prompted by plans to\n                  erect the actors' monument to him.","Plans for an entertainment to be given to raise\n                  funds for a life-size alto-relievo in bronze of Poe\n                  to be presented to the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   Central Park. The second\n                  clipping announces an entertainment to be given at\n                  Booth's Theater on 11 February to raise money for the\n                  Poe memorial and lists Executive, Entertainment, and\n                  Honorary Committees, together with a roster of the\n                  artists who are to appear.","In Hungarian. An abridgment of Ingram's 2-volume\n                  biography of Poe translated into Hungarian by \n                   Leopold Katscher.","Asks bitterly why the \n                   New York actors should be imposed\n                  upon to erect a monument to Poe.","In French. States that \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T.\n                  Hollands\" was written by Poe in June 1849.","In French. Ingram protests that an article by \n                   Gaston Vassy [Item 795] claiming\n                  Poe as author of \"La Chanson de J.-S.-T. Holland\" is\n                  not accurate.","Ingram regrets \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","Ingram writes about \n                   Thomas Wentworth Higginson's\n                  inability to find in Tieck's works \"Journey Into the\n                  Blue Distance,\" to which Poe alludes in \"The Fall of\n                  the House of Usher.\"","In light of the controversy over erecting the\n                  monument to Poe, this item suggests that Ingram's\n                  biography is all the memorial Poe needs.","A defense of Poe against criticism by a Mr.\n                  Rothaker in the New York Tribune.","Favorable comments.","Publishes letters by and about Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass. These\n                  letters were found by Mrs. Snodgrass after her\n                  husband's death in 1880 and lent by her to \n                   William H. Carpenter, Editor of\n                  the Baltimore Sun. Carpenter allowed \n                   William Hand Browne to make\n                  transcripts and press copies of them for Ingram and\n                  himself, and he, in turn, loaned his press copies to \n                   Edward Spencer who edited them\n                  for printing in the New York Herald.","An additional letter from Poe to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass, 1 April\n                  1841, found by Mrs. Snodgrass after she had lent the\n                  first nine to the editor of the Baltimore Sun.","Notes that the recently published letter of 1\n                  April 1841 does much to vindicate Poe from charges of\n                  drunkenness during that period of his life.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Prints Poe's letter to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass of\n                  1 April 1841.","Prints portions of Poe's letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841.","Poe's friend and physician agrees with Poe's\n                  declaration in his letter to Dr. \n                   Joseph E. Snodgrass of 1 April\n                  1841 that he was not a drunkard: \"dress Poe in rags,\n                  and the gentleman is there.\"","The \n                   New York Academy of Music plans\n                  another entertainment to raise money for the Poe\n                  memorial in \n                   New York City. Nearly $3000 has\n                  already been raised by two entertainments: one at the\n                  Madison Square Theater, another at Booth's\n                  Theater.","Report of the benefit entertainment for the Poe\n                  memorial which was held at the \n                   New York Academy of Music.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ), who died on Sunday,\n                  24 April, and was buried on Monday, 25 April.","Obituary of \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","\"J. C. L.\" corrects statements about Poe's history\n                  that were printed in the State's obituary of Mrs.\n                  Allan. Oldham requests names and addresses of those\n                  living who attended \n                   West Point with Poe.","Dr. Clover makes several corrections in the\n                  obituary of Mrs. Allan.","Ellis' letter is essentially a eulogy to \n                   Louisa Gabriella Allan (Mrs. \n                   John Allan ).","Raises the question of where Poe was born: \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Suggests that there is some question about Moran's\n                  motives in waiting so long to give his account of\n                  Poe's death, so long that everyone else who knew the\n                  circumstances is now dead.","Annotated by Ingram.","Report of Dr. \n                   John J. Moran's lectures on Poe\n                  at the YMCA Hall.","Excerpts from some of Poe's tales and from\n                  \"Marginalia.\"","In German. Discusses Poe and \n                   Thomas Carlyle.","In German.","In German.","This parody was sent to Ingram by \n                   P. J. Mullin [Item 369] who\n                  claimed that he first saw it in a Scottish magazine\n                  entitled the People's Friend.","In French.","Recollections of Poe told to Phillips by \n                   John Sartain. Freely annotated\n                  by Ingram with comments such as, \"Full of\n                  self-evident lies.\"","The cottage at \n                   Fordham sold at auction to \n                   Milton [Nelson?] Strang for\n                  $5,700.","The cottage at \n                   Fordham was sold at auction to \n                   Nelson [Milton?] Strang for\n                  $7,000. A neighbor of the Poes reminisces about the\n                  family when they lived there.","A defence of Poe's personal and literary\n                  reputations.","The lecture was sponsored by the Fine Art Loan\n                  Exhibition, New Public Hall, \n                   Cardiff, Wales.","Annotated by Ingram: \"Mr. W. M. Burwell's few\n                  personal reminiscences are derived from \n                   T[homas] G[oode] Tucker's highly\n                  imaginative remembrances.\"","Attributes to Poe authorship of verses entitled\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician,\" which were\n                  printed in the Boston Yankee in 1829.","Ingram takes exception to \n                   George Birdley's attributing\n                  \"The Skeleton Hand\" and \"The Magician\" to Poe [Item\n                  835].","Surveys Poe's popularity in \n                   France : \"the literature of the \n                   United States... is, in our\n                  time, represented there by Poe, one of the most\n                  gifted, if one of the least distinctively national,\n                  of American writers.\"","Major \n                   Evan R. Jones, American Consul\n                  for \n                   Wales, offered a favorable\n                  account of Poe and paid tribute to Ingram for\n                  rescuing his reputation from \"the odium that for\n                  twenty-five years had been cast upon it by his\n                  American biographers.\"","Eulogistic paper read before the \n                   Northern and Southern Club at \n                   Portland, ME, 22 October\n                  1884.","Lavender is reported to have been \"a maniac in the\n                  lunatic asylum at Raleigh, NC. He fancied that it was\n                  dictated by the spirit of \n                   Edgar A. Poe. \"","In German. Critical-biographical sketch of\n                  Poe.","This volume was published by the \n                   Tauchnitz Press, \n                   Leipzig.","This edition, in four volumes, was published in \n                   London by \n                   John C. Nimmo.","The \"new poem\" is a parody of \"The Raven\" entitled\n                  \"The Demon of the Doldrums.\"","In French. Brief biographical sketch of Poe and an\n                  explanation of \"The Raven.\"","Account of the reinterment of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe by Poe's side\n                  in \n                   Westminster Churchyard in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January.","A critical study.","Parodies of many of Poe's poems. Ingram\n                  contributed a number of these, as well as many of the\n                  notes, especially those on \"The Fire Fiend.\"","A review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, a volume in the\n                  American Men of Letters Series, published by \n                   Houghton Mifflin Company. The\n                  reviewer finds the book, \"considered as a biography,\"\n                  to be \"beneath the standard which critical opinion\n                  long ago fixed for works of this sort; judged as a\n                  whole it is beneath contempt.\"","J. W. Johnston of \n                   Lancaster, PA, at one time the\n                  owner of the MS. of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\"\n                  relates the numerous close calls the MS. had with\n                  fire and loss. The MS. is now the property of \n                   George W. Childs.","Presentation ceremonies of the Poe Memorial to the\n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4\n                  May 1885. Annotated by Ingram.","Notice of the unveiling of the actors' monument to\n                  Poe at the \n                   Metropolitan Museum of Art in \n                   New York City.","Story of a New York gentleman ( \n                   William F. Gill ) having removed\n                  the bones of \n                   Virginia Clemm Poe from the \n                   Fordham cemetery and kept them in\n                  his home in \n                   New York City for two years\n                  before they were finally brought to \n                   Baltimore and reinterred by Poe's\n                  side.","The first item surveys the \n                   Mary Rogers case and Poe's\n                  connection with it. The second reports that Dr. \n                   John J. Moran believes he has\n                  identified the house where Poe wrote \"The Raven.\"","Report that the ghost of \n                   Mary Rogers appeared at a\n                  seance.","Reports \n                   James Albert Clarke's\n                  reminiscences of Poe at the \n                   University of Virginia and \n                   David Bridges' recollections of\n                  Poe's early days in \n                   Richmond.","Laudatory review of \n                   George E. Woodberry's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Published by \n                   William F. Boogher, \n                   Washington, DC, this booklet is\n                  heavily annotated by Ingram.","Favorable review.","Repeats stories from the Critic (New York) and the\n                  Kokomo Dispatch (IN).","Review of the reissue of Ingram's two-volume \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions in a single volume in 1886 by \n                   Minerva Library of Famous Books.\n                  [This reissue was widely hailed and reviewed as a\n                  \"revised\" edition, when actually only a very few\n                  additions were made to its bibliography, and the\n                  index had to be remade to conform to the new\n                  pagination. Even such an able Poe scholar as \n                   Killis Campbell spoke of Ingram's\n                  \"enlarged\" biography, when such was not, in fact, the\n                  case.]","Reviewer criticizes the \"charitable\n                  shortsightedness\" of Ingram's efforts at a\n                  \"cleansing\" biography.","Generally favorable toward Ingram's efforts to\n                  present an accurate picture of Poe.","Ingram complains that the newspaper's recent\n                  account of \"Poe, the Cipher Wizard\" can be found in\n                  his own 1886 \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Ingram adds that \"our American\n                  cousins are very fond of extracts from my work; if\n                  they would only quote correctly, and without\n                  adornments, I should feel more gratified.\"","Review of Ingram's \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions.","Obituary of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  who died in \n                   Richmond on 10 February.","A critical-biographical article based upon \n                   Rufus Griswold's Memoir of\n                  Poe.","A \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, tells a reporter that he was an\n                  eye-witness when Poe was drugged, cooped, and voted\n                  thirty-one times before he died.","Cites story in the New York Sun about a \n                   San Francisco Bohemian, formerly\n                  a Baltimorean, who claims to have been a witness.","John Sartain tells a story of\n                  Poe's last visit to \n                   Philadelphia, in the summer of\n                  1849, and of his imprisonment. He also relates a\n                  story called \"The Three Visions,\" which Poe told to\n                  him.","Repeats the hoax perpetrated by \n                   James Whitcomb Riley in 1877.","Surveys the relationship between Poe and \n                   E. H. N. Patterson in their plans\n                  to establish the Stylus.","Prints the text of the poem and furnishes an\n                  account of its background. \n                   Eugene L. Didier edited this\n                  magazine.","Surveys Poe's life and work and applauds efforts\n                  to redeem his name.","Brief, harshly derogatory comment on Poe's life\n                  and writings. Poe's \"To Zante\" is reproduced in\n                  facsimile on p. 224.","Reports the death of Reverend \n                   Edward Doucet, S. J., and\n                  memories of Poe by Father Schully, \n                   George Pope Morris, and \n                   John B. Haskins. \n                   William F. Gill has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage.","Clyde W. Bryson has bought the\n                  Poe Cottage from the heirs of the old Rose Hill\n                  estate and has set apart $50,000 to keep the house\n                  and grounds in order.","This article had been printed in Munsey's\n                  Magazine, VII (August 1892), 554-558. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"All lies.\"","Description of Harrison and his studio. Harrison's\n                  portrait of Poe is now in the \n                   Brooklyn Historical Society\n                  Library.","Thomas Dunn English tells a\n                  reporter about a fight he had with Poe. Ingram's\n                  annotation: \"A pack of self-proved lies.\"","Defensive of \n                   Rufus W. Griswold, the article\n                  is based upon \n                   George E. Woodberry's \"Poe in\n                  the South: Selections from the Correspondence of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, \" Century\n                  Magazine, N.S., XXVI (August 1894), 572-583, 725-737,\n                  854-866, and reprints letters from Poe to \n                   Thomas W. White, \n                   John P. Kennedy, and \n                   Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, and a\n                  letter from \n                   James Kirke Paulding to \n                   Thomas W. White.","Letters to Poe from \n                   William E. Burton (10 May 1839), \n                   Washington Irving (6 November\n                  1839), \n                   N. P. Willis (30 November 1841), \n                   Charles Dickens (6 March 1842), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (20 May, 1\n                  July, 30 August 1841; 21 May 1842), \n                   Robert Tyler (31 March 1842).\n                  Letters from Poe to \n                   Philip Pendleton Cooke (21\n                  September 1839), \n                   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (22\n                  June 1841), \n                   Frederick W. Thomas (23 November\n                  1840, 25 May 1842).","Striking contrast between the burial of Poe on 9\n                  October 1849 and the pageantry that accompanied his\n                  exhumation and reburial on 17 November 1875.\n                  Identifies persons present at Poe's first burial.","Review of Volume I of The Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, edited by \n                   Edmund Clarence Stedman and \n                   George Edward Woodberry, 10\n                  volumes (Chicago: 1894-95).","Minor denies Dr. \n                   Matthew Wood's claim that \n                   Charles [sic] B. Hirst wrote \"The\n                  Raven\" and recounts his dealings, as editor of the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger between 1843 and 1847,\n                  with Poe and \n                   Henry B. Hirst and his\n                  republication of \"The Raven\" in the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger in March 1845.","Thomas Dunn English has told a\n                  reporter about his thrashing of Poe and of Poe's\n                  habit of borrowing and pawning watches and jewels.\n                  Ingram's annotation: \"A tissue of lies.\"","Tells the story of Poe's becoming a member of \n                   Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill\n                  Division. Hiden is confident that Poe did\n                  not break his pledge.","William J. Glenn's story of\n                  Poe's initiation into the \n                   Shockoe Hill Division, Sons of\n                  Temperance, of which Glenn was presiding\n                  officer the night Poe was admitted. Glenn relates,\n                  too, a story of Poe's calling for a pair of boots at\n                  his bootmaker between three and four A.M.","Article prints a poem of four eight-line stanzas\n                  \"discovered\" by \n                   H. Dalton Dillard on 23 February\n                  1895 in Volume I, Rollin's Histoire Ancienne, in the \n                   University of Virginia Library.\n                  These verses, one of the better Poe hoaxes, were\n                  written by Dillard and published in the University\n                  Annual, Corks and Curls, VIII (1895), 86-87.","Menchine expresses his doubts about Poe having\n                  written the poem published in the Post for the 18th\n                  instant [Item 891]. He makes a detailed comparison\n                  between lines from this poem and lines from Poe's\n                  later poems.","A review of \n                   George Cochrane Hazelton's\n                  melodrama \n                   Edgar Allan Poe ; or The Raven,\n                  which opened at Albaugh's Theatre in \n                   Baltimore on 11 October. Reviewer\n                  identifies the cast and furnishes a synopsis of all\n                  five acts.","A sympathetic article dealing with Poe's early\n                  critical work in the Southern Literary Messenger.","A detailed history of the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger with biographical sketches of Poe, \n                   Benjamin Blake Minor, \n                   John R. Thompson, and \n                   George W. Bagby.","The Stedman-Woodberry volumes are given a close\n                  analysis: Stedman's portion approved, Woodberry's\n                  condemned. The other two editions are dismissed in\n                  curt paragraphs.","Item anticipates the publication of a new edition\n                  in eight volumes by \n                   J. Shiells \u0026 Company.","Dr. \n                   Matthew Woods asserts that if\n                  \"The Raven\" was not written in collaboration with \n                   Henry B. Hirst, then it at least\n                  owes its origin to Hirst's poem, \"The Unseen\n                  River.\"","Critical estimate of Poe's personality and\n                  position in literary America. The essay was prompted\n                  by the publication of the ten-volume\n                  Stedman-Woodberry edition.","Controversial article directed at Professor \n                   Washington Irving Stringham of \n                   California State University who\n                  commented publicly on errors in Poe's theories in\n                  Eureka. Professor Stringham's remarks are reprinted\n                  in the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's Works, IX,\n                  301-312. Poe sent these addenda to Eureka to Eveleth\n                  in a letter, 29 February 1848.","The \n                   New York City Shakespeare\n                  Society is attempting to raise funds for\n                  the preservation of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage which is being\n                  threatened by a city ordinance demanding its removal\n                  or demolition so that Kingsbridge Road can be\n                  widened.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   Virginia Poe, and the Poe\n                  Monument in \n                   Baltimore.","Ingram probably wrote portions of these reviews\n                  and assisted whoever wrote the rest.","Scholarly review of the Stedman-Woodberry edition\n                  of Poe's Works. Reviewer points out Poe's debts to \n                   S. T. Coleridge and to \n                   Gottfried August Burger.","The cottage has been purchased by the State of \n                   New York and plans are to restore\n                  it to the condition it was in when occupied by the\n                  Poes.","Quotes \n                   William Wertenbaker and Dr. \n                   John J. Moran to demonstrate\n                  Poe's sobriety.","Enclosed in Item 401. Article quotes address by\n                  Professor \n                   James A. Harrison to the \n                   Book Club of the University of\n                  Virginia announcing student plans to erect\n                  some memorial to Poe in the \n                   Rotunda Library when it is\n                  completed. An Alcove or a Poe Window is proposed. A\n                  bust of Poe can be modeled by \n                   Edward V. Valentine of \n                   Richmond for $750. An appended\n                  paragraph notes that \n                   Robert Lee Traylor of \n                   Richmond possesses an extensive\n                  collection of Poeana, including the original\n                  daguerreotype which Poe presented to \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton a\n                  few days before his death.","The story of Poe's engagement to Sarah Helen\n                  Whitman.","Discovery of a marriage bond between \n                   Edgar Poe and \n                   Virginia Clemm, dated 16 May\n                  1836, in the office of the Clerk of \n                   Hustings Court of Richmond.","Translation of \"The Raven\" into Portugeuse by Mar.\n                  Mellus.","Comments upon an article entitled \"Even Homer\n                  Nods\" which appeared in Town and Country on 27 April\n                  1901. The Town and Country article cites Poe's\n                  seeming error in \"The Raven\" of having the light from\n                  a lamp in the center of the room throw the shadow of\n                  the bird on the floor instead of on the wall.","Ingram is invited by Mme. \n                   Anna Mallarme, \n                   Stephane Mallarme, and \n                   Adrien Bonniot to attend the\n                  marriage of Mlle. \n                   Genevieve Mallarme to Dr. \n                   Edmond Bonniot, in \n                   Paris.","Calls attention to the similarity of \"The Raven\"\n                  to a poem by the Chinese poet, \n                   Kia Yi, who lived and wrote\n                  about 200 B.C.","Highly laudatory.","Ingram corrects misstatements by \n                   Samuel Waddington concerning \"The\n                  Bells\" in an article in the Athenaeum on 26\n                  November.","Whitty points out possible source for Poe's story\n                  of having visited \n                   Greece. Quotes long article on\n                  Perdicaris, thought to be by Poe, from the Southern\n                  Literary Messenger, June 1836, p. 410.","Wrightman Fletcher Melton's\n                  study of Poe suggests that Margaret's song in\n                  Goethe's Faust may have served as Poe's model for the\n                  refrain in \"The Raven.\"","Susan V. C. Ingram tells the\n                  story of Poe's visiting \n                   Old Point Comfort, VA, in\n                  September 1849, reading his poetry to the assembled\n                  company on the hotel verandah, and giving to her the\n                  next day a MS. copy of his \"Ulalume.\"","Annotation by Ingram: \"Lauvrire is a poor\n                  monomaniac whom Poe would have laughed at.\"","In a letter to the Editor, Father Tabb expresses\n                  his sentiments about the Electors who rejected Poe\n                  for admission to the Hall of Fame in \n                   New York City.","The story of \n                   Rosalie Poe's life and death as\n                  told by \n                   Susan Archer Talley Weiss and \n                   Margaret Ritchie Stone.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Ingram attacks \n                   R. G. T. Coventry and \n                   J. B. Wallis for writing in the\n                  Academy on 4 and 11 November that Poe was not \"up to\n                  his trade as a poet.\"","Replying to Item 922, Coventry asserts that Ingram\n                  made an \"unfair attack,\" and Wallis writes that\n                  Ingram is \"mistaken\" and \"not quite fair.\"","Acrid reply to the Coventry and Wallis letters in\n                  Item 923.","Infers from the tone of Ingram's letter to the\n                  Academy for 2 December that he is \"determined to pick\n                  a quarrel.\"","Tyrell condemns Coventry for calling Rossetti's\n                  \"Sister Helen\" trash; \n                   B. R. Hoare defends Poe's\n                  estimate of \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Father\n                  Tabb questions \n                   J. B. Wallis' statements in the\n                  Academy for 25 November.","Feature article with pictures of \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton,\n                  her home, and Sadler's Restaurant in \n                   Richmond.","An account of \"Kelah,\" a poem of ten three-line\n                  stanzas, discovered by Miss \n                   Mary Wilkes, written on both\n                  sides of the flyleaf of an old copy of Dante's\n                  Inferno, bought from a native of \n                   Sullivan's Island, SC, with\n                  Poe's name on the inside front cover of the book.","Lord Emly, a considerable landowner in County\n                  Limerick, married Miss \n                   Frances de la Poer, of \n                   Ireland, a quarter of a century\n                  ago.","Summarizes Ingram's article \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe and \"'Stella' \"\n                  (i.e., \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis ) in the current\n                  Albany Review.","Caustic article, derived principally from \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton's\n                  correspondence with Ingram, about \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis' importuning\n                  and paying Poe for public commendation of her verses.\n                  Annotated by Ingram.","Summary of the contents of the July number of the\n                  Albany Review includes mention of Ingram's article on\n                  Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis [Item 931].","Summarizes Ingram's article on Poe and \n                   Sarah Anna Lewis in the July\n                  number of the Albany Review [Item 931].","Father Tabb writes that any friend who attempts\n                  \"to expose\" him to the public in the \"Series of\n                  Southern Writers\" will have for his penalty a blind\n                  man's malediction. Some of Tabb's poems were \"here\n                  first publisht\" in The Library of Southern\n                  Literature, Vol. XII, in 1907.","An enthusiastic review of The Complete Works of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, 10 volumes, New\n                  York: \n                   G. P. Putnam's Sons. This\n                  edition carries a critical introduction by \n                   Charles F. Richardson, \" \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, World\n                  Author.\"","The Librarian of the \n                   University of Virginia writes of\n                  plans for celebrating the Poe centennial.","Among forthcoming articles marking the Poe\n                  centennial, it is noted that Ingram is to have one\n                  called \"Poe and His Friends\" in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","A concert at Lehmann's Hall is planned by \n                   Sara S. Rice and \n                   Orrin C. Painter to raise money\n                  to erect a suitable memorial to Poe on his\n                  centennial, 19 January 1909.","Centenaries to be observed in 1909: Poe, \n                   Abraham Lincoln, \n                   Charles Darwin, \n                   Edward Fitzgerald, \n                   Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \n                   William Kinglake, \n                   John Stuart Blackie, \n                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, and \n                   W. E. Gladstone.","A biographical-critical account of Poe's life and\n                  work. \"C. W.\" states that \"The Journal of Llewellin\n                  Penrose, a Seaman,\" published by Murray, is the\n                  source of Poe's \"The Gold Beetle\" [sic].","In \n                   America the Southern Literary\n                  Messenger is to be revived in honor of Poe's\n                  centennial; in \n                   England Poe's poems will be\n                  issued in a new edition by Messrs. Routledge's\n                  \"Muses' Library,\" with a lengthy Introduction by\n                  Ingram.","A biographical-critical article illustrated with \n                   Samuel S. Osgood's portrait of\n                  Poe, a facsimile of an original MS. of \"The Bells,\"\n                  and a picture of what ostensibly is the Poe Cottage\n                  at \n                   Fordham, though it is some other\n                  house.","After citing a number of the centenaries to be\n                  celebrated, the article singles the occasion for\n                  Ingram's new edition of Poe's poems for the \"Muses'\n                  Library.\"","Notes that the Poe centennial will lead off the\n                  year.","Notice of Ingram's leading article in the Bookman\n                  (London), \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends.\"","List of Poe biographies issued in England in\n                  recent years.","In German. Centennial article.","The letter is prompted by Ingram's complaint that\n                  \"C. W.\" had praised \n                   George E. Woodberry's The Life\n                  of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe, Personal and\n                  Literary, 2 volumes, 1909, an edition which, Ingram\n                  insisted, Woodberry pirated so extensively from his\n                  work on Poe that it may not be imported into or sold\n                  in the \n                   British Empire.","This article had appeared in the Bookman (London)\n                  for January.","This miscellany includes a parody of \"The Raven\"\n                  by \n                   Harriet Winslow, a discussion of\n                  the current value of Poe books and letters, a\n                  reproduction of the Brady photograph, pictures of the\n                  Poe Monument in \n                   Baltimore and of Poe's \n                   Fordham Cottage, and a facsimile\n                  of his letter to \n                   Mary Osborne, 15 July 1848.","Profusely illustrated biographical-critical\n                  account of Poe's life and work. Articles by \n                   H. E. Buchholz, \n                   William Hand Browne, \n                   John S. Patton and \n                   Henry E. Shepherd. Poems: \"Edgar\n                  Allan Poe,\" by \n                   William Winter ; \"Poe Walks These\n                  Streets\" and \"In Westminster Churchyard,\" by \n                   Folger McKinsey ; \"To Edgar Allan\n                  Poe,\" by \n                   Richard Lew Dawson. Annotated by\n                  Ingram.","Describes the celebration in progress at the \n                   University of Virginia,\n                  including a medal struck by \n                   Tiffanys to mark the\n                  occasion.","\" \n                   New England still withholds from\n                  Poe the just and discriminating recognition which his\n                  work has commanded in the Old World and in the\n                  greater part of the New.\"","William F. Gill tells stories of\n                  a cross made from wood taken from Poe's coffin and of\n                  salvaging the bones of \n                   Virginia Poe when the \n                   Fordham cemetery was destroyed. \n                   Thomas Hardy's tribute is in\n                  reply to an invitation from the \n                   University of Virginia to attend\n                  ceremonies there. The Henderson item is a four-stanza\n                  parody of \"The Raven.\"","Includes articles by Professor \n                   James A. Harrison, \n                   James H. Whitty, \n                   Alice M. Tyler, \n                   Lee Hawkins, and \n                   James L. West.","Illustrated feature section honoring the Poe\n                  centennial.","A survey of Poe's life in which the author of the\n                  article insists that Poe was born in \n                   Baltimore.","First article outlines plans for celebrating the\n                  centennial in \n                   New York. The second article\n                  surveys Poe's \n                   New York years.","In French.","First article outlines plans to celebrate the\n                  centennial of Poe's birth in \n                   Baltimore schools. The second\n                  article presents the recollections of Dr. \n                   Basil L. Gildersleeve of \n                   Johns Hopkins University.","Austin L. Crothers, Governor of \n                   Maryland, promotes exercises\n                  marking Poe centennial.","In German. On the Poe centennial.","Centennial tribute.","In German.","In Italian.","Descriptions of Poe centennial celebrations in \n                   Baltimore, \n                   West Point, \n                   New York, \n                   Boston, \n                   Providence, \n                   Annapolis, and \n                   Charlottesville.","In French.","In French. An abridgment of Ingram's article, \" \n                   Edgar Poe and Some of His\n                  Friends,\" the Bookman (London), January 1909, as it\n                  has been translated into French by \n                   Henri D. Davray for Le Mercure de\n                  France.","Ingram protests the wording of Professor\n                  Harrison's article in the Century Magazine for\n                  January ( \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey, \"Poe and\n                  Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode\") and\n                  promises a revised and enlarged version of his own \n                   Edgar Allan Poe : His Life,\n                  Letters and Opinions. Appended to this is a letter\n                  from \n                   Richard Watson Gilder, editor of\n                  the Century Magazine, to the Editor of the Tribune in\n                  which he writes that Ingram was responding to copies\n                  of Professor Harrison's article that differed from\n                  the final printed version.","Centennial tribute. Notes that \n                   Richmond, VA, objected to the\n                  erection of a statue in Poe's memory on grounds of\n                  his personal character.","Professor Poe, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the \n                   University of Maryland,\n                  delivered this address at the Poe centennial\n                  celebration held in \n                   Baltimore on 19 January. Old\n                  Maryland was a publication of the \n                   University of Maryland.","Includes pictures of Poe, \n                   John Allan, \n                   Frances Allan, \n                   Virginia Poe, \n                   John Neal, \n                   William Clemm, Jr., \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   William Gowans, Judge \n                   Neilson Poe, \n                   Frances Sargent Osgood, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   Marie Louise Shew Houghton, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   John P. Kennedy.","In French.","A critical estimate that finds Poe at the climax\n                  of his powers in his romances.","Biographical-critical.","Laudatory article on Poe and on Ingram's\n                  four-volume edition of his works.","Comments on Poe's place in literature and on the\n                  controversy about variations in the last line of\n                  \"Annabel Lee\" and recalls the story of Emerson's\n                  having called Poe \"the jingle man.\"","Heavily and angrily annotated by Ingram, who wrote\n                  the editor that the article contained statements\n                  prejudicial to the honor of Poe and to himself.","The Authors' Club has arranged a dinner honoring\n                  Poe's centennial to be held in the Whitehall Rooms of\n                  the Hotel Metropole. Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle is the\n                  Chairman, and Ingram is to be a guest.","Ingram's letter, dated 1 January 1909, protests\n                  the wording used in the \n                   James A. Harrison and \n                   Charlotte F. Dailey article (\"Poe\n                  and Mrs. Whitman --New Light on a Romantic Episode,\"\n                  Century Magazine). A note from \"H\" to the Editor,\n                  prefacing Ingram's letter, states that Ingram\n                  particularly wanted this protest printed in a \n                   Baltimore paper.","Was it \n                   Boston or \n                   Baltimore ?","Account of the dinner honoring Poe's centennial\n                  held by the \n                   Authors' Club. Quotes from\n                  speeches by Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle and \n                   Whitelaw Reid.","Sir \n                   Arthur Conan Doyle presided at a\n                  dinner given by the London \n                   Authors' Club honoring Poe's\n                  centennial.","In French. Survey of Poe's relationship with \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman.","Eugene L. Didier offers the MS.\n                  of \"Morella\" for sale. Professor \n                   Henry E. Shepherd has a piece of\n                  wood from Poe's original coffin.","Review of The Last Letters of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe to \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, edited by \n                   James A. Harrison.","James A. Harrison has resigned\n                  from his chair at the \n                   University of Virginia and will\n                  be succeeded by Professor \n                   Charles Alphonso Smith.","A study of variations in Poe's poetry as he\n                  revised it.","Mr. Zimmer performed at a celebration in \n                   Petersburg, VA.","Favorable review of Didier's The Poe Cult, and\n                  Other Poe Papers.","Campbell prints for the first time Poe's letter to\n                   Sarah Josepha Hale, dated 20\n                  October 1837 [text printed in Letters, I, 105-106],\n                  to prove that Poe was again in \n                   Richmond and helping edit the\n                  Southern Literary Messenger in 1837. Poe, however,\n                  misdated the letter: it should have been 1836.","Prints an unpublished thirteen-line acrostic\n                  written by \n                   Virginia Poe to her husband in\n                  1846.","Campbell adds to the bibliography of Poe's\n                  criticisms --Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,Graham's Magazine, the Weekly Mirror, the Broadway Journal,\n                  and the Democratic Review.","Having found a file of the Flag of Our Union for\n                  1849 in the \n                   Library of Congress, Campbell\n                  identifies the Poe tales and poems published\n                  there.","J. P. Morgan paid $3,800 for MSS.\n                  of \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue\" and \"The Man That\n                  Was Used Up.\"","\"Coleridge had preceded Schlegel as Poe's\n                  teacher.\"","Poe's tales and verses testify to the genius of\n                  Poe more than admission to the Hall of Fame.","Describes four letters and four bills pertaining\n                  to Poe that have not been used by his\n                  biographers.","\"New forms\" of \"A Valentine,\" \"For Annie,\" and \"To\n                  My Mother\" have been discovered in Flag of Our\n                  Union.","Didier criticizes \n                   James A. Harrison for his\n                  \"eagerness\" to publish every minute change in Poe's\n                  poetry.","With two undated short newsclippings from the Sun:\n                  \"Poe Has Come into His Own\" and \"Admitted\"; a large\n                  cartoon showing Uncle Sam carrying a bust of Poe into\n                  the Hall of Fame. Poe is one of eleven persons\n                  elected to the Hall of Fame. Fifty-five votes were\n                  needed; he received sixty-nine.","The \"original first draft\" of Poe's \"Morella\" is\n                  to be sold at an auction at Anderson's Gallery.","Professor Harrison died in \n                   Charlottesville on 31 January and\n                  is to be buried in \n                   Lexington, VA.","Didier notes that he criticized Professor \n                   James A. Harrison's edition of\n                  Poe's Works as being \"too voluminous.\"","Politely critical review of \n                   James H. Whitty's The Complete\n                  Poems of \n                   Edgar Allan Poe.","Surveys Poe's contributions to the Columbia\n                  Spy.","A profile of \n                   Orrin C. Painter, including a\n                  photograph of him, a sketch of the gateway he erected\n                  to Poe's tomb, and a selection from Painter's\n                  poetry.","Discoveries in the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress : letters\n                  from \n                   Elizabeth Poe, Baltimore, to\n                  Mrs. \n                   John Allan, Richmond; \n                   John Allan's correspondence;\n                  bills from the \n                   University of Virginia.","Reports that \n                   John Quincy Adams has discovered\n                  a box of mss. and printed matter relating to Poe and\n                  his associates. According to \n                   Doris V. Falk, the \n                   John Quincy Adams mentioned was\n                  the nephew of \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers and he did\n                  have custody of this box of papers. He published\n                  articles about them in the Atlanta Constitution in\n                  March of 1888 (from which this 1912 paragraph was\n                  copied almost verbatim), and again in 1897. The\n                  papers remained in the \n                   Adams family until some were bought\n                  by the \n                   Huntington Library and others by\n                  the \n                   Duke University Library.\n                  Mentions: Professor \n                   George Bush, Professor Gierlow, \n                   Thomas Holley Chivers, \n                   Maria Clemm, \n                   Jane Ermina Locke, \n                   Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, \n                   William Gilmore Simms, \n                   Sarah Helen Whitman, \n                   N. P. Willis.","Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr., and \n                   The Raven Society of the University of\n                  Virginia have succeeded in identifying the\n                  approximate location of the grave of \n                   Elizabeth Arnold Poe in \n                   Old St. John's Churchyard,\n                  Richmond.","Reviews of Mallarme's Posies and of La Posie de \n                   Stephane Mallarme. tude\n                  Littraire, by \n                   Albert Thibaudet.","Declares that Poe was mistaken in all essentials\n                  in his famous forecast of the plot of Dickens'\n                  Barnaby Rudge.","Obituary of \n                   Amelia F. Poe, who died in \n                   Baltimore at the age of\n                  eighty-one.","Summary of a lecture on Poe and \n                   Stoke Newington given by \n                   Lewis Chase, Ph.D., including\n                  suggestion that Poe may have heard the local \"Tale of\n                  the Dead Hand.\"","Describes Whitty's discoveries concerning Poe in\n                  the Ellis-Allan Papers in the \n                   Library of Congress. Whitty\n                  attributes newly found verses to Poe: \"Ally Croaker,\"\n                  \"Burial of Sir John Moore,\" \"The Divine Right of\n                  Kings,\" \"Elizabeth,\" \"Extracts from Byron's Dream,\"\n                  \"Life's Vital Stream,\" \"Soldier's Burial,\" and\n                  \"Stanzas.\"","John Henry Ingram died at \n                   Brighton, England, 12 February\n                  1916.","Obituary of Ingram and a lengthy account of his\n                  personality and his obsession with all things\n                  concerning Poe.","A reprint of a portion of \n                   Nathaniel Parker Willis' letter\n                  about \n                   Maria Clemm.","A brief introduction to Poe's life, reputation,\n                  and poetry.","Poe's death followed a beating by ruffians in \n                   Baltimore after he had gotten\n                  drunk with old friends from \n                   West Point.","Poe's mother, \n                   Elizabeth Arnold, was the\n                  natural daughter of the traitor.","Dr. \n                   George B. Porteous of \n                   London lectures in \n                   Brooklyn on genius and reads \"The\n                  Raven\" and \"Annabel Lee\": \"The great London Preacher\n                  telling the Brooklynites what he knows about genius\n                  --reading Poe's'Raven'.\"","A romantic tale based upon Poe's supposed \"lost\n                  Lenore.\"","Reminiscences of Poe's \n                   Boston lecture in 1845.","A parody of \"The Raven.\"","In a lecture before the \n                   Portsmouth Literary and Scientific\n                  Society, \n                   G. F. Good said that Poe was the\n                  most self-centered egotist the world has seen since \n                   Alexander. Members of the\n                  Society decided they are profoundly thankful Poe is\n                  not one of their English poets.","In his essay \"Poe as a Story-Writer\" in Studies in\n                  Several Literatures, \n                   Harry Thurston Peck expresses\n                  appreciation for the \"intellectuality\" Poe \"displayed\n                  in his'Eureka'.\"","Article reproduces the portrait of Poe painted by \n                   Charles Hine in 1848.","Reviewer believes that Verne's method of handling\n                  certain incidents resembles Poe's method in \"A\n                  Descent into the Maelstrom.\"","Recalls that the murder of \n                   Mary Rogers, the subject of\n                  Poe's \"The Mystery of Marie Roget,\" has never been\n                  solved.","Edgar Allan Poe, Jr., was honor\n                  guest at a dance given by his parents at the \n                   Baltimore Country 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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. 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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Within each series, materials are generally separated by format and listed chronologically, with undated materials listed last.","Series 1. Papers of George Washington\nSeries 2. Papers of Tobias Lear\nSeries 3. Miscellaneous\nSeries 4. Papers of Martha Washington\nSeries 5. Papers of Eliza Parke Custis Law\nSeries 6. Papers of Thomas Law: Subseries 6.1. Legal Documents, Subseries 6.2. Correspondence\nSeries 7. Papers of William Costin\nSeries 8. Papers of John Law\nSeries 9. Papers of Lloyd Nicholas Rogers\nSeries 10. Papers of Edmund Law Rogers\nSeries 11. Papers of Robert Peter: Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents\nSeries 12. Papers of Thomas Peter: Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence\nSeries 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909: Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence","The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.","George Washington (1732-1799): George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Martha Washington (1731-1802): Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","Tobias Lear (1762-1816): Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.","Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831): Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.","Thomas Law (1756-1834): Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.","William Costin (1780-1842): William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.","John Law (1784-1822): John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.","Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860): Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.","Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896): Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.","Robert Peter (1726-1806): Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.","Thomas Peter (1769-1834): Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.","Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854): was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.","Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911): Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.","Major George Peter (1779-1861): Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.","Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902): Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.","Agnes Peter (1880-1957): Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.","Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\nthe Catalog's Peter Family Collection.","see Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17","This collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.","Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.","Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.","Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.","Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.","Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026 Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.","Manuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.","Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon","Autograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.","Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.","3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.","7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.","Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria","Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026 Greenleaf.\"","Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.","Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.","Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.","Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.","Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"","A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.","Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.","Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"","James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.","Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington","Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City","Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore","Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.","Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London","Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.","Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.","Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.","5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.","Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore","5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.","4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.","2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.","An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.","William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City","Three letters","A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.","5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.","Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.","Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.","Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.","1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.","Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.","An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026 10th.\"","1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.","In her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.","Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.","Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"","Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.","Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.","Pages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.","Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.","Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.","rent paid","Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.","Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter","Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter","Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram","Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"","List of Robert Peter's court appearances","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts","Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.","Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.","1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"","One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.","The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.","A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.","Four autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.","Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"","Tobacco sales","Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people","Deed of trust book is dated 1790","One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.","List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026 Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026 Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.","Receipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.","Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.","Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.","Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.","Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.","Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.","Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.","Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.","Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.","Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.","Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.","Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.","Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.","H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.","Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.","Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.","Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.","Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland","With unknown survey plat on verso.","Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation","Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.","Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.","List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.","Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland","Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.","Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.","John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.","Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.","A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.","A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.","Manuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"","Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.","Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.","A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.","Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.","Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.","3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.","Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.","Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.","Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).","3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.","Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.","Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.","Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.","A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.","Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.","Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..","Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.","These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.","A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.","Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.","2 autograph letters signed.","Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.","G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.","According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.","W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown","Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.","Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon","Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"","Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.","Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026 O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026 Washington.","Engraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026 Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..","Regarding the purchase of a clock.","Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.","Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.","Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.","Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place","Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.","Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.","Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.","R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town","Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.","Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.","Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.","U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter","Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter","James H., Georgetown, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.","W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter","B. H., Rockville, to George Peter","Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter","William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter","Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","G. D., George Town, to George Peter","J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter","W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter","J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter","Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown","J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter","Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter","W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter","Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter","J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter","A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.","Printed election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.","A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.","Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.","Promissory notes from George Peter","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.","Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter","George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.","3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.","George Peter, George Town","3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.","Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.","Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter","4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.","Typescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.","Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.","Identification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.","Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.","Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026 conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026 country \u0026 who look for success \u0026 preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.","2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.","Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.","A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.","8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.","printed pages","Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026 Washington'","W. Cook, Hyates Town,","William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter","James Summers, New Market, to George Peter","G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville","Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.","trust, property, and expenses of land","material and clothing","Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.","appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby","Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.","Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor","tuition bills","Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","typescript copy","deed of conveyance","Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.","copies of letters","Military exemption for Armistead Peter","Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10","Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter","Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]","Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.","lock of hair","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Four envelopes","Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1","Condolence letter","Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe","Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood","Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797","Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792","December 24, 1871, wrapper","List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.","Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520","wove paper","Photocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter","signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy","James Madison signature","The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia","9 manuscripts","under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE","Building 3044 O Street","copies","Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732","Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe","Bathsheba","First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks","Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl","Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]","First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks","Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter","Containing photographs of Peter relatives","Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.","Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]","Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.","\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.","Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.","Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.","Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.","Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]","Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'","Ledger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr","Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.","After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.","Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.","Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.","Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter","\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"","First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.","List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count","Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.","contains dried flowers","Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers","Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]","Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.","Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. 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Papers of Robert Peter: Subseries 11.1. Accounts, Subseries 11.2. Financial Documents, Subseries 11.3. Legal Documents, Subseries 11.4. Land Documents, Subseries 11.5. Estate Documents\nSeries 12. Papers of Thomas Peter: Subseries 12.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 12.2. Land Documents, Subseries 12.3. Estate Documents, Subseries 12.4. Correspondence\nSeries 13. Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1824-1909: Subseries 13.1. Financial Documents, Subseries 13.2. Legal Documents, Subseries 13.3. Correspondence"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eGeorge Washington (1732-1799)\u003c/emph\u003e: George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMartha Washington (1731-1802)\u003c/emph\u003e: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eTobias Lear (1762-1816)\u003c/emph\u003e: Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eElizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831)\u003c/emph\u003e: Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThomas Law (1756-1834)\u003c/emph\u003e: Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eWilliam Costin (1780-1842)\u003c/emph\u003e: William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eJohn Law (1784-1822)\u003c/emph\u003e: John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860)\u003c/emph\u003e: Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eEdmund Law Rogers (1818-1896)\u003c/emph\u003e: Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eRobert Peter (1726-1806)\u003c/emph\u003e: Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eThomas Peter (1769-1834)\u003c/emph\u003e: Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMartha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854)\u003c/emph\u003e: was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBritannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911)\u003c/emph\u003e: Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMajor George Peter (1779-1861)\u003c/emph\u003e: Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eDr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902)\u003c/emph\u003e: Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eAgnes Peter (1880-1957)\u003c/emph\u003e: Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Peters were a prominent family in Washington, D.C. during the eighteenth and nineteen centuries. Martha Parke Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, married into the Peter family in 1795.","George Washington (1732-1799): George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 at a modest farm in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. In 1749, George Washington was appointed surveyor for Culpepper County. In 1752, he started his military career in the Virginia militia. During the Revolutionary War he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and later was elected as the first President of the United States of America. He lived with his wife, Martha Washington, at Mount Vernon, where he passed away December 14, 1799.","Martha Washington (1731-1802): Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was born on June 2, 1731 to parents John and Frances Jones Dandridge. She married her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, on May 15, 1750. Together they had four children, two of whom died in childhood. On July 8, 1757, her husband unexpectedly died, leaving her a widow with their two remaining children, John Parke Custis and Martha Parke Custis. On January 6, 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married George Washington. Martha Parke Custis or Patsy, died at the age of 17. On February 3, 1774, John Parke Custis married Eleanor Calvert, and together they had four children who survived to adulthood. However, on November 5, 1781, John Parke Custis passed away, and the younger two of his children went to live at Mount Vernon with their grandmother. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died on May 22, 1802.","Tobias Lear (1762-1816): Tobias Lear was born in 1762. He was employed by George Washington in 1786 to manage expense reports to Congress and also as the personal tutor to Martha Washington's grandchildren. In 1790 Tobias Lear married Mary \"Polly\" Long; however she died in 1793. Lear then married Martha Washington's niece, Frances Bassett Washington, but she died shortly they were married. Lear married for a third time to Frances Dandridge Henley, another niece of Martha Washington. He died in 1816.","Elizabeth (Betsy, Beth, Eliza) Parke Custis Law (1776-1831): Wife to Thomas Law, Eliza Parke Custis Law was born on August 21, 1776. She was the daughter of John (Jacky) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert. Upon the death of her father in 1781, Eliza's two younger siblings, George Washington (Washy) Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Parke Custis went to live with their grandmother, Martha Washington, and her second husband, George Washington. Eliza and her other sister Martha stayed at home with their mother. Shortly after, their mother remarried Dr. David Stuart and had thirteen more children. On March 21, 1796, Eliza Parke Custis Law married Thomas Law and together they had one child, Eliza Law. In 1804, the couple separated and their daughter went to live with her father. They officially divorced in 1811. Eliza Parke Custis Law lived with one of her uncles for a time after the separation, and soon purchased a house in Alexandria called \"Mount Washington.\" Eliza Law Rogers died in 1822, leaving behind a husband (Lloyd Nicholas Rogers) and two children. Eliza Parke Custis Law died on December 31, 1831.","Thomas Law (1756-1834): Thomas Law was born on October 23, 1756 in Cambridge, England. He started his career working for the East India Trading Company and began building his reputation, as well as his income. In 1794, he left England to start a new life in America where he began to invest in lands, particularly in the nation's capital. Over time, Law became extremely passionate about the arts, particularly poetry, which he wrote and published. He even founded the first dance society, theater, and the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis on March 21, 1796. Together they had one child, Eliza Law, who married Lloyd Nicholls Rogers in 1817. Thomas Law died in 1834.","William Costin (1780-1842): William Costin was a prominent free black man in early 19th-century Washington DC. He was a messenger for the Bank of Washington and ran a hack business in the city. In 1800, he married his cousin Philadelphia (\"Delphy\"), a dower slave of Martha Washington. Upon Martha Washington's death in 1802, Delphy became the property of Eliza Parke Custis Law, wife to Thomas Law. Delphy and their children were granted freedom shortly after, and the couple decided to stay in Washington, D.C. Together the Costins had seven children. He died in 1842.","John Law (1784-1822): John Law was born in India about 1784 to Thomas Law and an unidentified Indian woman. In 1794 Thomas Law came to America after living about two decades in India; presumably John and his brothers came with him. Thomas Law married Eliza Parke Custis in 1796 and raised the boys until their separation around 1804. John Law graduated from Harvard University in 1804; he was a member of the Columbian Dragoons in 1811; and was the commissioner to adjust the Yazoo claims in 1814. He died on October 4, 1822.","Lloyd Nicholas Rogers (1787 or 1788-1860): Lloyd Nicholas Rogers was born on September 20, 1788 to parents Nicholas and Eleanor Buchanan Rogers. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers married Eliza Law Rogers in 1817. Together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers and Eleanor Agnes Rogers. They lived on Druid Hill which had been passed down by Lloyd's Scottish father. Very shortly after the death of Lloyd's father in 1822, Eliza also died. In 1829, Rogers was married to Hortensia Monroe Hay who was the granddaughter of James Monroe. Together, they had an additional three daughters, Harriet, Hortensia, and Mary Custis. Lloyd was a proprietor of his estate and practiced law out of his home on Druid Hill. Hortensia died in the 1850s, leaving Lloyd all alone. All of his children except for Eleanor had already married and moved out. Eleanor would not marry until 1862, following her father's death. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died on November 12, 1860.","Edmund Law Rogers (1818-1896): Edmund Law Rogers was born in 1818 to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers and Eliza Law Rogers. He grew up and lived in Baltimore all of his life, and was a founding member of the Maryland and Harvard Club, as well as a member of various other organizations, such as, the Sons of the Revolution and the Baltimore Historical Society. He spoke several different languages and was a lover of the arts. He married Charlotte Matilda Plater and together they had two children, Edmund Law Rogers, Jr., and Charlotte Plater Rogers. He died of paralysis on January 24, 1896.","Robert Peter (1726-1806): Robert Peter was born in 1726 in Scotland to Thomas Peter and Jean Dunlop, who were prosperous merchants. He immigrated to the United States around 1745, but there is no definite reason why he chose to leave. He first settled in the town, Bladensburg, along the Anacostia River. In 1751, Georgetown was established, and Robert purchased a lot in the town the following year, and slowly began to build up his land holdings. His land holdings grew to be quite extensive, including owning the entire square from M, K, and 31st Streets, and Wisconsin Ave. From 1789 to 1798, Robert Peter was the first mayor of Georgetown. On December 27, 1767, he married Elizabeth Scott, and together they had 10 children, one of whom died as an infant. Their names were: Thomas, Alexander, Elizabeth, Walter, Robert, Jean, Margaret, David, George, and James. He died in 1806.","Thomas Peter (1769-1834): Thomas Peter was born January 4, 1769 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. Thomas Peter married Martha Parke Custis, granddaughter to Martha Washington, in 1795. Together, they had eight children. Martha Eliza Eleanor, Columbia Washington, John Parke Custis, Robert Thomas, George Washington, America Pinckney, Martha Custis Castania (who died young), and Britannia Wellington. In 1805, Thomas and Martha purchased eight-and-a-half acres in \"Georgetown Heights.\" [For more information on Tudor Place, see Tudor Place: Historic House and Gardens.] They later hired architect Dr. William Thornton to design and build Tudor Place located in Georgetown. It was completed in 1816 and still stands today. Thomas Peter was a prominent lawyer of the time and was one of the executors of Martha Washington's will. He died April 16, 1834.","Martha (Patty) Parke Custis Peter (1777-1854): was born to John Parke Custis and Eleanor (Nelly) Calvert Custis on December 31, 1777. She was one of four children in their family to survive to adulthood: Eliza Parke, Martha Parke, Eleanor Parke (Nelly), and George Washington (Washy) Parke. Following the death of their father in 1781, Patty and her older sister, Eliza, lived with their mother and stepfather, Dr. David Stuart, and their large family, while their younger siblings, Nelly and Washy, lived with their grandparents at Mount Vernon. There were frequent visits to Mount Vernon in both childhood and following her marriage to Thomas Peter in 1795. She died July 13 or 15, 1854.","Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815-1911): Britannia Wellington Peter was born January 28, 1815, as the youngest child of Martha Parke (Patty) Custis Peter and Thomas Peter. In 1842, she married Commodore Beverley Kennon, and together they had one child, Martha Custis Kennon, on October 18, 1843. Commodore Kennon died from a gun explosion on the frigate Princeton on February 28, 1844. Martha Custis Kennon married Dr. Armistead Peter in 1867. When Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon's mother passed in 1854, she inherited Tudor Place, where she lived until her death in 1911.","Major George Peter (1779-1861): Major George W. Peter was born on September 28, 1779 to Robert and Elizabeth Scott Peter. He was married three times during his life. First, to Ann Plater in 1809. Together they had two children, George and Thomas. His wife and two children all died in 1814. Secondly, in 1815 he married Agnes Buchanon Freeland. They had five children, Robert, Ann, James, Agnes, and David. Agnes, his wife, died in 1825. Only a month later, he again married, this time to Sarah Norfleet Freeland, the sister of his second wife. Together, they had nine children: Sarah Agnes, George, Alexander Scott, Margaret Dick, Elizabeth, Armistead, Walter Gibson, William, and Katherine Norfleet. Major George Peter was an officer in the army, a representative in Congress, and a farmer. During his career in the army, he was first appointed first lieutenant 2nd, Artillery and Engineers on February 16, 1801. He was promoted to Captain on November 3, 1807, and finally was transferred to the Light Artillery in May of 1808. He resigned in June 11, 1809. In 1815, he was elected to Congress to cover the sixth district in Maryland. He would continue this appointment until after 1828. He died June 22, 1861.","Dr. Armistead Peter (1840-1902): Dr. Armistead Peter was one of George Peter's sons from his third marriage to Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter. He was born on February 23, 1840. Dr. Armistead Peter was a cousin to his wife Martha Custis Kennon Peter, whom he married in 1867. Together, Martha and Armistead had five children: Walter Gibson, Armistead, Beverley Kennon, George Freeland, and Agnes. He and Martha Custis Kennon Peter both moved into Tudor Place and Dr. Armistead Peter converted a portion of the house for his medical practice. He created a very successful business as one of the best doctors in the city of Washington. During the Civil War he was employed by the U.S. Army as ward surgeon, as well as serving in a smallpox hospital. Martha Custis Kennon Peter died suddenly in 1886. Armistead died in 1902, his mother-in-law, Britannia W. Peter Kennon outliving both of them. The land in Bethesda was divided between their four children. After Britannia W. Peter Kennon died, the house was left to her grandson, Armistead Peter II. Dr. Armistead Peter died on January 28, 1902.","Agnes Peter (1880-1957): Agnes Peter, born on February 3, 1880, was the daughter of Dr. Armistead Peter and Martha Custis Kennon Peter. She lived in France for a period of time during WWI conducting work for the YMCA. Agnes Peter was the director of a Foyer du Soldat and helped to receive soldiers and refugees. She was also in charge of the Graves Registration Section in Rheims. She was the first woman in France to be awarded the silver Medal of Honor for her distinguished services to the country during the war. In 1946, when she was 73, she married Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John R. Mott, who is most acclaimed for his work creating international Christian programs with a goal to establish peace. She died in 1957."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["[Name and date of item], Peter Family papers, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePeter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\n\u003ca href=\"https://mountvernonlibrary.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=%2A\u0026amp;clusterResults=false\u0026amp;groupVariantRecords=false\u0026amp;subscope=wz%3A46368%3A%3Azs%3A39386\u0026amp;changedFacet=scope\"\u003ethe Catalog's Peter Family Collection\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003esee Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials","Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Peter family owned books are cataloged in the Library Catalog. The 23 titles (36 volumes) are searchable in the\nthe Catalog's Peter Family Collection.","see Century Magazine, May 1890, p. 17"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of papers collected by various members of the Peter families. It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026amp; Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026amp; Greenleaf.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocuments related to the sale of property in Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence about the sale of property in Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026amp; 10th.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003erent paid\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of Robert Peter's court appearances\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sales\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of trust book is dated 1790\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026amp; Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026amp; Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith unknown survey plat on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHoratio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCalling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDocument bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 autograph letters signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccording to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDepartment of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCalling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026amp; O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026amp; Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEngraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026amp; Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the purchase of a clock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eU. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames H., Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eB. H., Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Thompson, Union School, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMichael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. D., George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFive receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and bank notes from George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUndated Bills and accounts of George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Peter, George Town\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTypescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMajor George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026amp; conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026amp; country \u0026amp; who look for success \u0026amp; preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eprinted pages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026amp; Washington'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eW. Cook, Hyates Town,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Summers, New Market, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eG. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etrust, property, and expenses of land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ematerial and clothing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eappraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedical bills, pharmacy, doctor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etuition bills\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etypescript copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edeed of conveyance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopies of letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMilitary exemption for Armistead Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elock of hair\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical Studies- From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour envelopes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolence letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Governor Horatio Sharpe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDecember 24, 1871, wrapper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewove paper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esigned by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Madison signature\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 manuscripts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eunder the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuilding 3044 O Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecopies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBathsheba\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContaining photographs of Peter relatives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLedger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Papers of Major George Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommunion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. 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It includes letters from George Washington, letters of condolence to Martha Washington after George Washington's death, estate documents, Major George Peter's military papers, land plats and surveys, photo albums, letterbooks, and notebooks that tell of the life of this prominent family in Virginia and the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed from Eliza, Hope Park, asking her grandfather for a picture of him. Docketed in Washington's hand on verso.","Autographed letter signed (signature cut out) George Washington, German Town, to Eliza Parke Custis. Washington offers his granddaughter advice on love and marriage.","Autograph letter in Washington's hand, initialed by both George and Martha. George and Martha Washington, Philadelphia, to Thomas Law. The Washingtons congratulate Law on his marriage to their grandaughter Eliza.","Autograph letter signed by George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter, discussing the purchase of English cattle.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in Washington's hand.Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Washington, Mount Vernon. Peter asks Washington to secure a spot for his brother in the Army and shares rumors about a bill coming up in Congress.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel and seal. George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about the sale of tobacco.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel.George Washington, Mount Vernon, to Thomas Peter. Washington writes about farming and congratulates Thomas and Patsy on the birth of their son.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. John Mercereau, Union Township, to George Washington. John Mercereau, a businessman who served with his brother and nephew in a spy ring during the Revolutionary War, writes to Washington asking if he may come and visit, reflecting that no memories give him greater satisfaction than those he spent \"Devoted to my Countrys Service.\" Tragically, Mercereau did not know that Washington had died 10 days before his letter was sent.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., London, to George Washington.  Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., writes to his uncle about his business ventures from London. He had not yet received word of Washington's death on December 14, 1799.","Autograph letter unsigned in the hand of Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart and most likely addressed to Tobias Lear. The letter is dated 7 February with no year but was most likely written in 1790, since it mentions Lear's first marriage, which occured in 1790.","Autograph letter signed, undated, with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart to Tobias Lear, New York. Docketed in Lear's hand as received 2 October 1790. Eleanor writes of her unhappiness at being parted from her children Nelly and Wash.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Mount Vernon, to Tobias Lear, New York. Eleanor writes about the lottery and her family, noting that \"My Dear Nelly \u0026 Wash. are still spoilt by Grand Mama but chearfully obey every word I say to them.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Docketed in hand of George Washington. Lucretia Constance Radcliffe, Charleston, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Mrs. Radcliffe writes seeking an Army commission for her son and sends a packet of crane feathers and melon seeds. She also sends news of Major Pinkney.","Manuscript resolution of the \"Sixth Congress of the United States: At the first session Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine\" stating that a marble monument to George Washington be erected in the City of Washington and that his remains be interred beneath it. It is also resolved that a funeral procession from Comgress Hall to the German Lutheran Church shall take place on Thursday, December 26, 1799, and that the nation will wear crepe arm bands for thirty days of mourning.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Maria S. Ross, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. A condolence letter from Maria S. Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Martha Washington on the death of her husband.","Autograph letter, copy. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response to Maria Ross's condolence letter to Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel with seal of John Adams. Abigail Adams, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Condolence letter written by Abigail Adams to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Martha Washington's response to Abigail Adams's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Mary Stead Pinckney, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Pinckney also sends her regards and congratulations to Nelly Parke Custis Lewis, who was recovering from the birth of her first child, Frances Parke Lewis.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut, Lebanon, Connecticut, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Elias Boudinot, New Jersey Congressman and Director of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot. Tobias Lear's response on behalf of Martha Washington to Elias Boudinot's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Bushrod Washington, Walnut Farm, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bushrod writes to Martha about purchasing corn from Colonel Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter written by Ann Huntington, New London, Connecticut,  to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Hamilton's condolence letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Condolence letter from Reverend Samuel Miller, New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, on the death of George Washington. He writes that he is inclosing a discourse he recently delivered on the occasion of Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear's, Mount Vernon, response on behalf of Martha to Samuel Miller's, New York, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Stephen Williamson, Philadelphia, State Prison, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Stephen Williamson introduces himself as the captain of a company in the Rhode Island Regiment who served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. He recounts a dream he had in which she gives birth to a son following Washington's death. He also tells Martha the details of his arrest for buying a stolen horse and requests her assistance in getting him out of prison.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Former Secretary of War Henry Knox, Montpelier, St. Georges, sends Martha his condolences after the passing of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Henry Knox's condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Mayor of New York City Richard Varick offers his condolences to Martha after the death of George Washington. He also incloses, on behalf of the Common Council of New York City, an oration delivered on the occassion of Washington's death by Gouverneur Morris.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Richard Varick's, New York, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Richard Washington,Bermuda, a former business associate of Washington's in London, offers his condolences to Martha after George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Sedgwick writes that he is inclosing a second edition of General Lee's funeral oration.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha in response to Theodore Sedgwick's condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter written by the Marquis de Lafayette, La Grange, to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. A condolence letter from Auguste Belin, Secretary of the Loge Française l'Aménité of Philidelphia, a freemason lodge of French and Saint-Dominguen émigrés. Belin writes that he is inclosing copies of a funeral oration performed at the lodge in honor of George Washington's death.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Auguste Belin's, Philadelphia, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter. Condolence note from Reverend William Rogers, Philadelphia, to Martha on the death of George Washington. Rogers writes that he is enclosing a copy of a funeral oration he delivered in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks William Rogers for sending \"a copy of the Religious Exercises, at the time of the Eulogy, at the German Reformed Church.\"","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, requests that Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of Washington be given to Martha, in exchange for fair compensation. Lear writes that Martha has expressed no desire for her own portrait, but Lear thinks it would be nice to display alongside the portrait of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence note written by Charles Humphrey Atherton, Amherst, New Hampshire, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Atherton writes that he is enclosing a funeral oration delivered at the request of the citizens of Amherst, New Hampshire in Washington's honor.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha Washington in response to Charles H. Atherton's, Amherst, New Hampshire, condolence letter on the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Georges Washington de Lafayette, La Grange, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, writes a condolence note to Martha after the death of George Washington. Georges writes of Washington's \"parental kindness\" when he visited Mount Vernon and says, \"How far was I to imagine when I left your family that it would be a last farewell.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Condolence letter written by Alexandria merchant Thomas Porter to Martha after the death of George Washington. Porter writes that he is sending an eulogy along with the letter.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A condolence letter written by Revered James Kemp, Cambridge, Maryland, to Martha Washington after the death of George Washington. Kemp writes that he is enclosing a copy of a sermon he delivered on the day appointed by Congress to honor George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha Washington to James Kemp's, Cambridge, Maryland, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Condolence letter from Peleg Wadsworth, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington on the death of George Washington. Wadsworth requests, on behalf of his daughter, a relic of the late General.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writes on behalf of Martha in response to Peleg Wadsworth's condolence letter after the death of George Washington. Lear writes that he is enclosing a lock of Washington's hair for Wadsworth's daughter as requested.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, writing on behalf of Martha Washington, thanks Reverend John D. Blair for sending his condolences and two orations delivered in Richmond on February 22 in honor of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. William Griffiths, Burlington, New Jersey, offers his condolences on behalf of the citizens of Burlington, New Jersey to Martha after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, responds on behalf of Martha to William Griffith's, Burlington, New Jersey, condolence letter after the death of George Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Theodore Sedgwick, Philadelphia, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon","Autograph letter signed \"John Lemayere.\" Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs, was George Washington's dentist during the Revolutionary War. He writes his condolences to Martha on the death of Washington, apologizing that his servant lost the first condolence letter he had written on February 24.","Autograph letter signed. Tobias Lear, Mount Vernon, to Dr. Jean Pierre Le Mayeur, Sweet Springs","Autograph letter signed with integral free franked address panel. Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., New York, to Martha Washington, Mount Vernon. Bartholomew Dandridge Jr. writes his aunt inquiring about letters sent to him from Washington before his death that Dandridge never received.","Autograph letter signed. Sir John Sinclair, London, writes to Martha in praise of her late husband and sends her a volume of his letters.","3 letters written by Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers to her mother between December 5, 1819 - November 21, 1821.","7 letters written by Brigadier General Simon Bernard, Washington City, to Eliza Parke Custis Law between March 28, 1828 and May 21, 1830.","Lloyd Rogers to Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Alexandria","Printed legal document: Statement of the defendant's case. Docketed on verso \"Papers relating to case of Law v. Morris Nicholson \u0026 Greenleaf.\"","Manuscript legal statement of Thomas Law in regards to a property dispute in Washington City between William Mayne Duncason and Tench Ringgold.","Manuscript memoranda regarding property dispute over square 744 in the City of Washington.","Autograph letter signed. Concerning Tench Ringgold and property dealings in the City of Washington.","Manuscript descriptions of the architectural plans for the Thomas Law House, designed by architect William Lovering and built circa 1794 on the 689 square in the City of Washington.","Thomas Law, Washington City, discusses his plan for construction of New Jersey Avenue on lot 744 of Washington City, along the public canal.","Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White, Washington City, to Thomas Law","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. George Washington Parke Custis, Philadelphia to Thomas Law, Federal City. George Washington Parke Custis writes to Law of the pleasure he will have in serving Washington City, which is to be \"the pride of future ages\" and \"the metropolis of America.\"","A manuscript copy of the address read by W. M. Duncanson at a meeting of the Managers of Washington Canal Lottery - Law, Carroll, Young, and Duncanson. Their reply is copied on the verso.","Autograph letter signed. Duncanson writes that Thomas Law has resigned his title to Lot 744 of Washington City in favor of Tench Ringgold.","Unsigned, undated manuscript, docketed \"Tench Ringgold Arbitration.\"","James Piercy, City of Washington, to Gustavus Scott, William Thornton, and Alexander White. Three manuscript copies by Thomas Munroe of letters written by James Piercy to the Commissioners of the City of Washington about his claims to lot 744.","Manuscript copy made by Thomas Munroe of a letter written by the Commissioners of the City of Washington to James Piercy in response to Piercy's claims on lot 744. Scott and Thornton write to Piercy that \"no intention exists of granting you the square you mention.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Elizabeth Parke Custis Law Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, City of Washington","Lloyd Rogers, Druid Hill, to Thomas Law, Washington City","Thomas Law to Lloyd Rogers, Baltimore","Writing from New Orleans in 1832, John Taylor reports that fifty to sixty people a day are dying from yellow fever and smallpox.","Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Washington, to Thomas Law, London","Letter written by Lawrence Lewis to William \"Billy\" Costin requesting Costin's service in transporting his family from Mr. Charles Carter's residence in Culpepper County to their home. Lewis provides a suggested route and expected arrival date stating, 'you must not disappoint me.' A postscript in the hand of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis requests additional and immediate transportation for herself to Philadelphia. She offers Costin's mother payment in Pork if she will accompany them on the trip. Autograph letter signed, 1 page, with integral address panel.","Undated note from Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis asking \"Billy\" to ask her sister Betsy to send the things by which she [Eleanor] wrote to her for. Directs Billy to be very careful of them as they are easily broken. Autograph note signed E Lewis, 1 page.","Autograph letter signed with integral adddress panel.","Autograph letter signed. George Washington Parke Custis writes William \"Billy\" Costin at the Bank of Washington. He mentions he expects to go with Lafayette to visit Woodlawn.","5 letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law. The first letter is addressed to John at George Town College and the other four to Harvard University.","Edmund Law, Washington, to John Law, Baltimore","5 dated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Letter discussing the court martial of Commodore James Barron, who would later kill Commodore Stephen Decatur in duel in 1820.","4 undated letters from Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","15 undated letters and notes written by Eliza Custis Law to her stepson John Law.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. John Law asks William Thornton if he can borrow a book on calvary maneuvers.","2 letters written by William Thornton in response to John Law's August 10, 1807 letter.","An undated letter from John Law to his half sister, Eliza Law. He writes that he is sending sweetmeats from Woodlawn by William, as promised.","William D. Sims, Pittsburgh, to John Law, Washington City","Three letters","A series of four letters and their draft copies written over the course of two days by John Law to his father, criticizing his conduct, particularly in regards to Eliza Law's marriage to Lloyd Nicholas Rogers.","5 letters written by Thomas Law to his son John Law, Washington City, around 1817, addressing John's criticisms of him, his divorce, and his friendship with Elizabeth Bordley Gibson.","Autograph letter signed. A letter of reconciliation sent by John Law to his father.","Draft of letter from Lloyd Nicholas Rogers, New York, to Major-General Henry Lee discussing the life of Baron de Kalb.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington.Lenman and Brother, Washington City, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Documents related to the sale of property in Washington.","Correspondence about the sale of property in Washington.","2 letters about the sale of property in Washington. N. Callan, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.","Bond of conveyance for Lot No. 1 in Square 260 in Washington City, District of Columbia.","1 survey plat of lots in Washington along Canal St, and 2 pages of notes listing the prices of lots and the names of their purchasers.","Letter from the Commisioners of the Sinking Fund of the Corporation of Washington. William McCormick, Registers Office, Washington, to Edmund Law Rogers.","An indenture form reassigning a parcel of property in Washington City. The Deed of Trust form is marked at the top of the first page \"Printed and Sold by Robert A. Waters, D. st., bet. 9th \u0026 10th.\"","1 page autograph letter signed by George Washington Parke Custis to Edmund Law Rogers, with additional letter from Martha Custis Williams, Arlington House, written on verso. Custis writes, \"From the very graphic account you gave Martha Williams of your visit to Mr Fenno, I see but a poor chance of my Drama being brought out [in Baltimore].\" He asks Rogers to inquire of his \"theater going friends\" if any other Baltimore theatres will perform the work. If not, he asks Rogers to return the book care of William Adam Bookseller Pennsylvania Avenie Washington.","In her letter, Williams passes on a request from \"Aunt B\" (Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon) to send the \"little manuscript book, containing an inventory of the Mt Vernon relics at Tudor Place, as she is much at a loss, with regard to the history of many things in the House.\" Britannia Peter had inherited Tudor Place the year before, in 1854. Williams adds to Rogers that she hopes he will not make too much effort to have Uncle Custis's play produced because \"Cousin Mary Lee and all his family are so much opposed to it.\" Williams hopes Custis will focus on finishing his Recollections instead.","Bill for $21 addressed to Edmund Law Rogers for advertising the sale of lots in the City of Washington in the newspaper the National Intelligencer.","Unsigned indenture for the sale of lots in the City of Washington. Docketed in pencil \"sale not made.\"","Invoices, notes, and receipts from accounts between Robert Peter and the firm O'Neill and Dearkins. Includes an invoice for tobacco, sugar, corduroy, gauze, linen, chocolate, silk, muslin, paper, wine, ribbons, pins, cotton, and tea.","Unknown list of accounts, believed to be from Robert Peter.","Pages from account book with the note \"These leaves was received by James S Webber from Mrs. Esther H Webber wife of Mr Levi Webber of Vassalboro Kennebeck Co. Maine being a part of account Book of Charles Webber, my Grand Father, his own handwriting. Received by me June 22 1878.\" The accounts include invoices for cod fish, bacon, molasses, tea, rum, sugar, silk, shoes, brandy, wine, coffee, and corn.","Includes accounts for flour, pork, beef, lamb, and veal.","Bond for the conveyance of a parcel of property called Black Oak Thickett in Frederick County, Maryland.","rent paid","Page of rent payment accounts in unknown hand.","Bond of Thomas Nicholls of John to Robert Peter","Bond of Isaiah and Edward Nicholls to Robert Peter","Lawsuit against Robert Peter by James Gordon, Henry Riddell, John Campbell, John Campbell Junior, Alexander Low, and William Ingram","Three documents related to disputed accounts between Robert Peter and Benjamin Ray. One with a note by John T. Mason dated February 27, 1799, \"He has no shadow of right to one shilling on this [account].\"","List of Robert Peter's court appearances","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 5 manuscripts.","Court documents and accounts related to Robert Peter, 19 small manuscript receipts","Survey of land called Bealls Plaines in what became Washington City, along Goose Creek, later renamed Tiber Creek.","Manuscript on parchment with large seal attached by a ribbon.","1766, Survey to Forrest, May 12, 1773, (six documents) Bladenburg, Sept., 21, 1766; Rock Creek, Nov. 13, 1766 \"to Robert Peter, merchant in Georgetown.\"","One undated note by Thomas Peter and one letter from William Dearkins and Ben Stoddert to Stephen Chiswell about resurveying about 200 acres called Partnership granted to Elting Williams.","The Resurvey of Brandy and transfer of several named enslaved people.","A letter about resurveying a parcel of propery called Hazard. George Scott to Robert Peter, George Town.","Four autograph documents dealing with land ownership. Two notes on fragments; one half sheet giving history of a property in Prince George's County; and an 8 page survey document, with reference to points on a drawn survey, of Cross Basket, Balantyre, and other properties (9 lots) belonging to Robert Peter and divided amongst George and Thomas Peter.","Certificate and plat for 5 3/4 acres of vacant land granted by special warrant to Robert Peter out of the Western Shore Land Office of Washington County in the District of Columbia. Surveyed by Joseph Elgar, Jr. Autograph document signed, 1 page.","Hand colored survey plat showing the division of Robert Peter's Square in George Town. Docketed on verso \"Plat belonging to Thomas Peter's Square in George Town.\"","Tobacco sales","Tabacco Sales, Real Estate, Transfer of enslaved people","Deed of trust book is dated 1790","One dollar printed in Annapolis by F. Green, 7 December 1775. Two thirds of a dollar printed in Philadelphia by Hall and Sellers, 17 February 1776.","List of items purchased by Martha Washington from Macleod \u0026 Lumsdon, dated at the top 18 February 1800, Alexandria. The accounts, dated 8 July and 9 August, include entries for 47 panes of glass, oil, paint for 30 mahoghany chairs, paint for a wine cooler, varnishing, picture frame gilding, and glazing. Signed by Macleod \u0026 Lumdsdon at the bottom, noting that the above money was received in full 9 October 1800.","Receipt signed \"Daniel Lecock\" for payment received by the hands of James Anderson on behalf of Martha Washington for 790 bushels of corn on 2 May 1800.","Receipt for $25 paid by Thomas Carwood to James Anderson for 100 barrels of fish from Mount Vernon.","Accounts dated February 13, March 11, and April 12, 1800 for newspaper advertisements and handbills purchased by Martha Washington from Ellis Price, printer of The Columbian Mirror and Alexandria Gazette. Items Martha purchased include 26 advertisements for a house to rent, an advertisement about the Mount Vernon fishery, 23 advertisements about the donkey Knight of Malta, and notice about the runaway slave Marcus.","Accounts dated 23 April-23 September 1800 for weaving yards of cotton, wool, and other fabrics. The payments are marked as having been paid \"By balance due the Estate of General Washington,\" by cash, by 41 gallons of whiskey, and barrells of herring. The final payment is marked as received from James Anderson on 10 November 1801.","Bill addressed to the Estate of Mrs. Martha Washington, Deceased for $200 due to James Craik for medical services rendered Mrs. Washington during her last illness and $5 for cash paid Heyskill for the hire of his carriage. A signed oath by Jacob Hoffman testifies to the validity of the charges.","Receipt of payment from Thomas Peter to Lawrence Lewis for three hundred dollars for one hundred barrels of corn sold to Mount Vernon for the use of the estate. Signed by John Anderson.","Receipt written by Dr. David Stuart for the receipt from Thomas Peter for five guineas, the leagcy left by Martha Washington to Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart.","Payment from Thomas Law to Griffith Coombs for repairs to Martha Washington's townhome in the District Columbia occupied by Henry Dearborn. Payment marked by Coombs as received in full from Thomas Peter on August 23, 1802.","Twenty dollars wages paid to Richard Burnett of the City of Washingon by Thomas Peter for the year 1802.","Payment of $50 received by George Smith of Woodlawn from Thomas Peter on 12 January 1803 for hire as a blacksmith at Mount Vernon in the year 1802. Signed by George Smith (his mark) and Lawrence Lewis. George Smith was one of George Washington's slaves who was freed after Washington's death. His wife, Lydia, was one of Martha Washington's dower slaves and was inherited by Nelly Parke Custis Lewis of Woodlawn.","Receipt for one hundred pounds Virginia currency received by Benjamin Lincoln Lear from Thomas Peter, one of the executors of Martha Washington's estate.","Accounts of Mr. James Dunlop with Thomas Peter, for horses, ploughs, and an enslaved woman named Peg. Peg is likely one of the slaves Martha Parke Custis Peter inherited from the Custis estate.","Receipt for funeral arrangements paid by Thomas Peter to William King on December 4, 1820 following the death of his twenty-three-year-old daughter Columbia Washington Peter. The arrangements include a \"walnut coffin lined,\" silver plate and engraving, and rental of horses, a hearse, and attendants.","H. B. Morris, Philadelphia, to Thomas Peter, Georgetown. Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. A letter about bank accounts and stock certificates.","Bill from Dr. Warfield to Thomas Peter for a visit to a \"black man in the night\" on March 5, 1824 which resulted in the amputation of the man's leg.","Two bills from P.L. Dupont paid by Martha Parke Custis Peter for dancing lessons for her daughter Britannia.","Two stock share certificates for the Patowmack Company (Potomac Company). Share No. 89 is for Martha Peter, and No. 91 for Thomas Peter.","Land office papers for the resurvey of Bear Denn, Daniels Discovery, and Partnership in Maryland","With unknown survey plat on verso.","Aquila Johns to Thomas Peter on sale of Seneca plantation","Autograph letter signed by Sarah Norfleet Freeland Peter, wife of Thomas Peter's brother George, relinquishing right title and interest on a tract of land called Forrest, property of her husband, in order to pay his debts.","Letter about resurveying property owned by George Washington Peter.","List of property in Montgomery County Maryland owned by Thomas Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Regarding financial matters.","Horatio Edmondson of Taylor County, Maryland","Pamphlet stitch binding with marbled paper covers. Contains notes about purchases made by Thomas Peter 1813-1814.","Calling card from Le Baron de Maltitz, Secretaire de la Legation Imperiale de Russie. Manuscript date 1823 on verso.","John Dandridge writes to Thomas Peter, George Town, asking to borrow money from the estate of Martha Washington.","Thomas Peter, George Town, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed, with envelope. Josiah Quincy, Cambridge, to Martha Parke Custis Peter, Georgetown. Josiah Quincy thanks Martha Parke Custis Peter for her generous reeption of his children at Tudor Place and thanks her for the relic of George Washington that she sent back with them.","A contemporary manuscript copy of a letter in which Nelly Parke Custis describes having seen George Washington writing his farewell address at Mount Vernon. When the address was finished, she says he asked her to bring him silk string, and she watched him stitch the address together in front of her. Nelly writes this as a rebuke to one of Alexander Hamilton's sons, who claims his father wrote the farewell address.","A list of accounts between the Estate of George Washington and Alexandria apothecary Edward Stabler, including purchases for Turlington's Balsam, castor oil, arsenic, balsam copaiva, British oil, salts, purified Salt Petre, cantharides, ipecacuanha, laudanum, tumeric, and opodildo. Payments are marked as received from James Anderson. Autograph document, 1 page.","Manuscript titled \"A List of Negroes belonging to Mrs. Washington.\" A list of 121 enslaved persons who were Martha's dower slaves. Unlike the slaves owned by George Washington, Martha's slaves were not freed after her death and were inherited by the Custis descendants. Men, boys, women, and girls and listed in separate columns, each further broken down into the places where they worked: Mansion house, River Farm, Muddy Hole, and Union Farm. Five women - Amy, Alice, Peg, Agnes, and Old Judy - are listed as \"Free but yet remain.\"","Signed certificate from the executors of General George Washington to the Clerk of Fairfax.","Accounts from 1802 for furniture and household goods purchased by George Washington Parke Custis from the Estate of Martha Washington. The final payment was made in 1826, and the account is signed by Thomas Peter, executor of the estate.","A list of the household belongings sold by Thomas Peter from the personal estate of Martha Washington. Includes a listing of who purchased each item and the price it sold for.","Signed indenture for sale of land in the City of Washington.","Articles of agreement between George Calvert and Thomas Peter with Thomas Law, agreeing that Thomas Law and his wife Eliza Parke Custis Law will live separately. Eliza will receive $1500 per year from Law, and all the interest from her inheritance from George Washington will go to her and her daughter.","3 sheets of accounts between the estate of Robert Peter and James Dunlop, including the sale of \"5 negroes willed Mrs. Peter.\" These are some of Martha's dower slaves inherited by Martha Parke Custis Peter. One additional account between Jonathan Hicks and the heirs of Robert Peter, dated 1809-1811.","Receipt written by Lawrence Lewis acknowledging receipt from Thomas Peter of three hundred and twenty-six dollars eighteen cent left to his son Lorenzo Lewis as a legacy from Martha Washington.","Receipt signed by George Washington Parke Custis acknowledging the receipt from Thomas Peter of one thousand dollars as a legacy left to his daughter from the late Martha Washington.","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Thomas Peter, George Town, to Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon. Thomas Peter writes to Bushrod about money owed for two purchases he made from the estate of George Washington.","Two documents related to a settlement made by John Dandridge against George Washington Parke Custis and Thomas Peter, executors of Martha Washington's estate. One is a 1829 decree from the U. S. Circuit Court, signed by William Thomas Carroll; and the other is an account of money owed to John Dandridge signed by Benjamin Lincoln Lear, 1830 June 21. Autograph documents signed (2).","3 documents related to the death of Beverley Kennon, husband of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, who died aboard the USS Princeton during the 1844 Peacemaker accident: a newspaper clipping with an excerpt from a sermon by Reverend Mr. Magoon on the Princeton Tragedy, a plan of the burying ground belonging to Mrs. Beverly Kennon, and a certificate from the Vestry of Washington Parish granting Mrs. Beverley Kennon four sites in the Washington Parish Burial Ground.","Receipts for two legacies received of Britannia W. Peter Kennon, executor of Martha Parke Custis Peter's estate. One is for a grandson named Thomas Peter and another for her grandson John Parke Custis Peter.","Manuscript resolution of the Senate of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, offering sympathy to the families of those killed aboard the USS Princeton during the Peacemaker accident. This copy was given by the President of the United States to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, whose husband, Beverley Kennon, was killed in the accident.","Printed form signed by Britannia W. Peter Kennon and witnessed by William Purcell, esquire, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, District of Columbia.","A list of collections and payments made to sundry persons to settle the estate of Martha Parke Custis Peter.","Document bound with blue ribbon, with envelope. Last will and testament of Ann Gertrude Wightt, a former nun at the Georgetown Visitation Convent who later lived at Tudor Place. Autograph document, 8 pages.","Autograph letter, with envelope. Ann Gertrude Wightt, Rochester, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Papers related to the sale of Lot 9 in Square 72 of Washington City to William A. Gordon. Letter from William E. Edmonston to William A. Gordon, 1891 May 30. Two letters from William A. Gordon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, 1891 June 3 and 1889 October 4. Typescript signed by William Gordon of Declaration of Trust for sale of Lot Nine, Square Seventy Two in Washington City, D.C..","Indenture made between Britannia Wellington Kennon, party of the first part, and Walter Gibson Peter, Armistead Peter Jr., and George Freeland Peter, parties of the second part, all of the District of Columbia, regarding relics and heirlooms at Tudor Place acquired by Britannia W. Peter Kennon from her mother Martha Custis Peter grand-daughter of Martha the wife of George Washington, known in the family as \"The Mount Vernon Heirlooms.\" Other relics are from the estates of Thomas Peter and Beverley Kennon. Britannia wishes that these relics be preserved by her descendants and that none of them be sold or disposed of.","These include pictures, miniatures, engravings, glass, china, silver, jewelry, furniture, needlework, and other relics, including a sago palm formerly belonging to Martha Parke Custis Peter. The relics and heirlooms are to be divided into five parts after Britannia's death and delivered to her grandchildren.","A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (New York : Printed and published by William A. Davies) Inscribed Britannia W. Peter.","Autograph letter signed. Beverley Kennon, Navy Yard, Washington, to Reverend W. Hoff, George Town. Kennon asks Reverend Hoff to be present at Mrs. Peter's place in George Town on the 8th to marry him to Britannia W. Peter.","2 autograph letters signed.","Autograph letter signed on mourning stationary, with envelope and black seal. John Tyler, Washington, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. President John Tyler offers his condolences to Britannia W. Peter Kennon on the death of her husband, Beverley Kennon, during the Peacemaker accident aboard the USS Princeton.","G. T. Kennon to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place","Autograph letter signed with envelope docketed \"A letter written to Uncle Bev. by my mother while at boarding school given to me after Uncle Bev's death by Aunt G.\". Martha Custis Kennon, Georgetown, to Beverley Kennon Jr. Beverley Kennon Jr. was Martha Custis Kennon's half brother.","According to Martha Custis Peter, this illustration was at the Tudor Place.","W. Van Ness, New York, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Department of the Interior, Pension Office, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place, Georgetown","Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Georgetown","Mattie D. Abbot to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, Tudor Place. From the Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society of Christ Church accepting Britannia Kennon's resignation as President.","Letters from James Mackubin, Ellicott City, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon","Two letters from Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend, Vice Regent of New York for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, to Britannia W. Peter Kennon. In the 26 November 1890 letter, Justine asks Britannia to help the Ladies determine what is genuine at the upcoming 1890 Thomas Birch's Sons sale of Washington relics in Philadelphia. The sale will include \"General Washington's papers, a clock, a punch bowl, and many other things.\"","Invitation from The Board of World's Fair Managers of Virginia inviting Britannia W. Peter Kennon to be present at the ceremonies of Virginia Day at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Enclosed with an envelope and the calling card of Mrs. William Radford Beale.","Calling cards for Martha Custis Kennon and Armistead Peter. At home card with envelope for Britannia W. Peter Kennon, engraved by Dempsey \u0026 O. Toole of Baltimore \u0026 Washington.","Engraved form ceritifying that \"Cream Ladle No 68944 is an exact reproduction of one onwed by General and Mrs. Washington and used for a number of years at Mr. Vernon.\" The ladle was produced by Galt \u0026 Bro. Jewellers, Silversmiths, Stationers, Washington D.C..","Regarding the purchase of a clock.","Typescript lists of letters and items from Mount Vernon that were part of  Britannia W. Peter Kennon's collection at Tudor Place.","Unbound notebook with list of items and letters from Mount Vernon that belonged to Britannia W. Peter Kennon at Tudor Place. Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia's grandchildren.Includes furniture and household items.","Includes a list of how the items were divided amongst Britannia W. Peter Kennon's grandchildren.","Manuscript list of books, jewelry, and locks of hair at Tudor Place","Includes both manuscript and typescript inventories of books, furniture, and objects from Tudor Place.","Newsclippings and correspondence related to Washington relics loaned by Walter G. Peter to the National Museum in the early 1900s.","Lent by Walter G. Peter from the Britannia W. Peter Kennon Collection of Washington Relics.","R. Davidson, Pinckneyville, to George Peter, George Town","Includes a $5 charge on 23 October 1813 for a coffin \"for a black man.\" On 9 February 1814, Peter was charged $50.00 for a lined coffin covered with black cloth, among other expenses, possibly following the death of his first wife, Ann Plater Peter, or one of their young sons.","Thomas Anderson, Clarksburgh, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with printed cash form from the Office of Discount and Deposit, Washington.","Joseph Delaplaine, Philadelphia, to George Peter. Deplaine requests Major Peter's portrait for his gallery.","U. McInder, Petersburg, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","W. Coor, Rockville, to George Peter","Partially printed form from the District of Columbia. Major Peter grants Charles A. Burnett power of attorney to sell, assign, and transfer his 50 shares of stock in the Books of the Washington Turnpike Company.","Letter from unidentified, Annapolis, to George Peter","Charles Bunting, Montgomery County, to George Peter","James H., Georgetown, to George Peter","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel. Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Lear writes regarding two suits againist Mrs. Sarah Peter.","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Washington, to George Peter. Printed letter with manuscript additions, from B. L. Lear, Attorney of the Bank, Bank of the United States.","W. W. Ramsay, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Washington City, to George Peter","B. H., Rockville, to George Peter","Clement Cod, Georgetown, to George Peter","William Thompson, Union School, to George Peter","Michael Keepers, Frederick Town, to George Peter","John Wootton, Rockville, to George Peter","G. D., George Town, to George Peter","J. Orme, Georgetown, to George Peter","W. Sellman, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Samuel C. Ulens, Poolesville, to George Peter","J. Higgins, Poolesville, to George Peter","Jesse V., Poolesville, to George Peter, Darnestown","J. Falls, Baltimore, to George Peter","Geo. Howson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Alfred Spates, Cumberland, to George Peter","Letter from unidentified, Baltimore, to George Peter","W. Matthews, George Town, to George Peter","Geo. Hownson Mason, Annapolis, to George Peter","Benj. Fawcett, Colesville, to George Peter","J. Williams, Washington D.C., to George Peter","A letter from the Treasuries Office of the Baltimore and Ohion Railroad Company, offering Peter free tickets to pass over the roads of their company.","Printed election ballot for \"The Constitution and Union Ticket,\" promising \"Civil and Religious Liberty.\" George Peter is listed as the candidate for Commisioner of Public Works.","A list of clothing purchased by Martha Washington from William Jones of Alexandria. Includes suits purchased for enslaved workers Daniel, Marcus, Christopher, and Frank. According to notes on the verso, payments were received from James Anderson on 12 April 1800 and 15 May 1800.","Five receipts for goods and services paid for by James Anderson in 1800, including repairs to old shoes, paper lampblack, freight for one box from Philadelphia, 93 yards of cloth, and leather.","Promissory notes from George Peter","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Bills and bank notes from George Peter. Checks, Union Bank of Georgetown.","Promissory notes and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and bank notes from George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro","Bills and accounts of George Peter with F. S. Poole and Bro.","Undated Bills and accounts of George Peter","George H. Peter, Carlise, writes to his uncle asking for money for an upcoming vacation.","3 letters from James Peter to his uncle George Peter.","George Peter, George Town","3 letters sent by James Freeland Peter to his father from Alexandria, Buffalo, and Detroit.","Manuscript acrostic written for Uncle George Peter.","Sarah Peter, Georgetown, to George Peter","4 letters from George Peter, Jr., to his father.","Typescript list of \"Things from Mt. Vernon\" with manuscript annotations by George Freeland Peter of which Peter heirs inherited the items.","Typescript and manuscript inventories of items fro Tudor Place, with notes on which Peter heirs inherited them.","Identification key to \"The battle at Bunker's Hill\" engraved by Johann Gotthard Müller after the painting by John Trumbull. Printed in London by A. C. de Poggi.","Accounts for shoes, boots, and repairs, including shoes for enslaved people.","Major George Peter's troops are invited to attend Divine Service. \"It is hoped they will attend \u0026 conduct themselves with a reverence suited to the character of Christian soldiers, who have taken arms in defence of their homes \u0026 country \u0026 who look for success \u0026 preservation to the favor of the Almighty Giver of all victory.\"","Autograph letter signed with integral address panel and red wax seal.","2 letters to George Peter from his brother David Peter, George Town.","Deed of sale for land purchased by Peter on Gay Street and Dumarton Street in George Town.","A list of 322 volumes, showing title, number of volumes, size, and type of bookbinding.","8 letters and 1 receipt, mostly addressed to George Peter from his niece, Jane Beverley and her husband, James.","printed pages","Roger Brooke Taney, Annapolis, to George Peter regarding upcoming elections [December 20] to the U. S. Senate specifically the potential election of Mr. [Alexander C.] Hanson as a means to heal and reconcile the differences in the Federal Party. Also discuss Mr. Washington's 'zeal and industry' in supporting Hanson's candidacy. Autograph letter signed, 2 pages. Docketed 'Roger B. Taney - Hanson \u0026 Washington'","W. Cook, Hyates Town,","William Brewer, Aix la Chapelle, to George Peter","James Summers, New Market, to George Peter","G. Dalls S., Colesville, to George Peter, Poolesville","Elisha Jones, Clarksburg, to George Peter","Includes the papers granting George and Sarah Peter guardianship of David Peter's children Elizabeth, William, Jane, George H., and James.","trust, property, and expenses of land","material and clothing","Receipt for the purchase of Lot No. 15 in Square No. 170 in the City of Washington.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","3 copies of the will of Sarah Freeland, George Peter's mother-in-law.","appraisal authorization of Alexander Broome and Samuel Darby","Accounts of Margaret Dick with William Parson. Includes an account for shoes soled and nailed for James Peter.","Medical bills, pharmacy, doctor","tuition bills","Letter, T.H. Paul to George Peter. Letter, Unknown  to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States.","Receipts from Leonard W. Candler, Darnes Town, to George Peter. Receipts for the purchase of dry goods, clothing, and other household goods.","typescript copy","deed of conveyance","Indenture, George Peter to Thomas Peter, Land from estate of Robert Peter, Jr.","copies of letters","Military exemption for Armistead Peter","Bill, George Peter, Esq. to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1869 February 11; Col. Richard L. Maury, Attorney, to Dr. Armistead Peter, 1876 October 10","Includes story of Abraham Lincoln and the Maryland Barbecue by Agnes Peter","Memento for either Walter Gibson Peter or W. Orton Williams from Mrs. Laura Cassaway, small American flag and small ivory mirror with flower [Fragile]","Includes receipt of letter, 1873 January 24. Letter regarding interest in farm from Robert Dick.","lock of hair","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- Fragmented letter - From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Genealogical Studies- From Binder 1","Four envelopes","Goes up to Britannia W. Peter Kennon -From Binder 1","Condolence letter","Signed by Governor Horatio Sharpe","Indenture, September 30, 1791; Resurvey of Forrest, 1796. Document signed by Gov. Haywood","Resurvey of Pipe Tomhock; Copy of Platt (sic) and Illustrations, August 14, 1798; July 11, 1766, Explanation of Survey, September 19, 1797, May 26, 1796, February 16, 1797","Deed, Elizabeth and John Scrivenor, April 18, 1799, June 11, 1799, Resurvey of Brandy, June 9, 1792, June 18, 1792","December 24, 1871, wrapper","List of enslaved persons, livestock, and tools sold at Slashes, Sugar Lands, and Rock Creek Quarters totaling $9,308.00. Autograph document, 3 pages, with docket.","Bernard Gilpin firmly bound to Thomas Peter for $5520","wove paper","Photocopy, \"Account Book 1, Robert Peter, Esq. with the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings; On division of the Tract, Mexico within the City of Washington, Exclusive of what are called \"Old divisions of squares\" and water lots of which no account is key by the Commissioners. 21 pp. Note from Walter Gibson Peter re: History of book, how it ended up in the Library of Congress Thomas Peter","signed by James Madison, B. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy","James Madison signature","The most important ones delivered to F.S. Keys Esq. and recorded in suit pending in Court Dt. Columbia","9 manuscripts","under the orders of Lt. Col. E. Robert, USTE","Building 3044 O Street","copies","Includes Allison's Forrest Enlarged; Fort Grubby Hill, July 1, 1732","Includes Indenture, Daniel Veetch, February 19, 1758 Document signed by Gov. Horatio Sharpe","Bathsheba","First found in Thomas Peter's Letterbooks","Photos, Photos from Survey (4) and Ivory Cross [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon] Interesting small religious carved cross, made from Mother-of-Pearl","Letter, William A. Coffin to Britannia Kennon, February 23, 1889; Brouchure for Exhibition, April 30, 1889; Letter, A. W. Drake to Britannia Kennon, January 29, 1889, May 16, 1889, including: carte de visite of George Washington and calling card of Mr. A. W. Drake (Photo) [First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon]","First found in Papers of Britannia W. Peter Kennon","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Major George Peter's Letterbooks","Frenzel Gallery, Georgetown. Moved from Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","Includes Sir Thomas Nicholson, William Scott Blair, General Scott of Malenie, Robert Buchanan, William Dunlop, Elizabeth Roberton, J. Horsburgh, Lord Abbots Hall, Isabel Corbet, Cunningham Scott. First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter.","First found in Papers of Dr. Armistead Peter","Containing photographs of Peter relatives","Pictures of Tudor Place, Vacation, Content Farm, Ellen Beale Peter 1931 (Walter Gibson's Wife) Made by Walter Gibson Peter, [Loose photographs], Half Full.","Elizabeth Peter, wife of Robert Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter [Note: Some loose pages]","Book of tobacco sales, list of enslaved persons belonging to Robert Peter, and lots of Robert Peter in the City of Washington with division by squares for the Commissioners and how they are disposed. The bound volume is made up of 178 pages. Pages 52-147 are blank. At some point the volume is flipped and entries are begun at the back of the book from pages 178-154. For viewing purposes those pages have been reoriented and reordered.","\"Tobacco Book,\" All letters received pertaining to his business of selling tobacco in Europe and trading across the Atlantic, including captains, lawyers, and buyers in Europe.","Includes personal letters that were sent to the family, photocopied letters from Thomas and General Washington, various financial papersNot in order [Documents are fragile and book in poor condition]. Made by Walter Gibson Peter.","Contains photographs and letters. Created by Walter Gibson Peter, received documents from Britannia W. Peter Kennon.","Commissions, Letters, Orders, etc. Relating to service in the U.S. Army and Major Georgetown Field Artillery, Created by Walter Gibson Peter. Items signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.","Corps of the Artillerists, New Orleans and Fort McHenry, Garrison and Regimental Orders, Major George Peter; Order and prisoner tries and punishments, List from Fort McHenry, Morning Reports [Note: Book in poor condition]","Ledger of real estate holdings of George Peter with Robert Peter and James Peter [pages 2-17]. Also includes, \"The following Table exhibits a view of the Squares and Lots, the Number of square feet therein contained, and the value of the same, now owned by Capt. George Peter, in the City of Washington\" [pages 74-78]. Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 88 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-7, 10-11, 14-17, 74, 76, and 78. The remaining page are blank. In 1813, the ledger is flipped and a single page (page 88) includes a list of names under the title 'Rent Roll for 1813.'","Ledger for the estate of Robert Peter maintained by his son Thomas Peter. The bond volume contains 176 pages, partially completed. Accounts are entered on pages 6-54, pages 55-173 are blank, and pages 174-176 include bank notes at the Bank of Columbia and the Branch Bank of Washington City. A scrap of paper with calculations was found between pages 49 and 50 and is included in the digitization.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music by Benjamin Carr","Contains letters, pictures, U.S. Navy Commissions (James Madison, John Tyler, and Franklin Pierce), invitations, and a memorandum of Britannia and Beverley made by Walter Gibson Peter- Grandson to Britannia.","After resigning from the army, notes made from Walter George Peter. Includes letters, a list of enlaved people from Montanaverde, bills, and business transactions.","Repairs made on properties of Robert Peter, Jr.  Stitch binding with marbled paper covers, 98 pages. Real estate accounts appear on pages 2-5, 8-23, and 26-33. The remaining pages are blank.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","Copies made February 1 and 2, 1849 by Edmund Law Rogers at Tudor Place, the residence of his Great-Aunt Martha Peter.","Communion Alms, Christmas and Easter Offerings, June 5, 1850. In Memory of Mrs. Britannia Wellington Kennon, From the Trustees of the Louise Home, 1911.","Four account books. Account Money paid for the Estate of Mrs. Martha Peter","\"Commenced the practice of medicine the latter end of March 1867. Left town the first of May 1867 and returned June 28th- recommended practicing 8th of July, etc., Expense Log and Visiting List\"","First found in Dr. Armistead Peter's files. 9 volumes, dated 1863, 1866, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1889, 1892, and 1896.","List of patients from practice and paid or unpaid, in alphabetical order, Bills Due, Cash Paid to Mrs. Peter, other accounts, small pox vaccination count","Notes on visits, family seal, copied letters, list of articles from Mount Vernon, notes about clothes and jewelry; Copy of Album was acquired by Martha Custis Peter, great-great granddaughter to Britannia W. Peter Kennon, which Britannia had given to her grandson, Walter Gibson Peter. Her father was Walter Gibson Peter, Jr.","contains dried flowers","Includes folders of France and WWI soldiers","Contains deeds, inventories, and papers pertaining to Robert Peter's estates and his sons, Robert, James, David, George, and Thomas. Various notes about David Peter's death, and letters from George Peter. Made by Walter Gibson Peter. [Note: There are loose pages]","Includes voice and music notes for the saxon ground, will you come to the bower, nobody coming to marry me, the rose, rondo, and others.","First found in Papers of Major George Peter","No. 5116, volume 190, covering the coronation of George VI.","Printed volume, includes a facsimile handwritten section entitled \"accounts, G. 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