WILLIAM HAND BROWNE, Baltimore, ALS to INGRAM, 1875

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Box 5

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4 pp.

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Dr. John J. Moran's recently published account of Poe's last moments should be taken with a considerable modicum of salt. Browne relates memories of jokes Poe's eccentric uncle played on a volunteer company of Germans in Baltimore. James W. Alnutt of Baltimore, who knew Poe intimately, says that he was without doubt cooped, drugged, voted, and then turned loose to die.

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