ANNIE RICHMOND, Lowell, MA, ALS to INGRAM, 1877

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Box 6

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4 pp.

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William F. Gill has shown himself to be an unscrupulous mountebank by using her sister Sarah Heywood's recollections of Poe in his volume after she had written him that she wanted to use her paper for an article of her own. Mrs. Richmond has reason to believe that at least one favorable review of Gill's biography was written for a consideration. She never liked Gill, found his personality disagreeable, but when Ingram wrote to her she felt immediately that he "ought to know," that he "must know," the things she knew about Poe. Poe told her that Flag of Our Union was a miserable paper but that the editors paid well. Maria Clemm had promised to leave to her all of her papers and letters. William Rouse has Edgar Poe's letter to William E. Burton of 1 June 1840 [Item 18].

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