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Start Over Collection John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915. Date range 1880

ANNIE RICHMOND, Lowell, MA, ALS to INGRAM, 1880 2 pp. Box 7

Mrs. Richmond hopes her letters from Poe will not be printed in Ingram's new volume; if they are, she will not be surprised or shocked, but there will be life-long regret. She is pleased with E. C. Stedman's remarks about "For Annie" in his sketch of Poe in Scribner's Monthly.

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  2. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915.
  3. Part One: Letters, Manuscripts, Other Documents

ANNIE RICHMOND, Lowell, MA, ALS to INGRAM, 1880 3 pp. Box 7

Mrs. Richmond is terribly shocked to see her letters from Poe printed "word for word" in Ingram's new biography of Poe, for she had assumed that he would "merely give the ideas of the writer." There are things in the letters which might be construed to Poe's disadvantage, and she thought the liberty granted for publication had been restricted and confined to very narrow limits by her injunction that he was to give to the public only what he would have been willing to be known had the letters been addressed to his wife or to his sister. Would he have printed Sarah Helen Whitman's letters from Poe had she been alive?

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  2. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915.
  3. Part One: Letters, Manuscripts, Other Documents

"AS TO POE'S DEATH, " letter to the Editor by William Hand Browne, 1880 Box 13

Giving an account of Poe's death in Baltimore, Browne quotes in full the note from Joseph W. Walker to Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass, 3 October 1849, notifying Snodgrass of Poe's whereabouts and condition. This note was discovered in 1880 by Mrs. Snodgrass while going through the papers of her late husband.

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  2. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915.
  3. Part Four: Printed Matter from Magazines, Newspapers, and Books

CHARLES J. PETERSON, Philadelphia, ALS to INGRAM, 1880 4 pp. Box 6

Peterson was associated with both Rufus Griswold and Poe on a magazine and knows and understands their characters thoroughly. Griswold was a coward unchecked by any high sense of honor; he hated and feared Poe; his biography of Poe was a malicious libel. Poe was, conventionally, a gentleman; his great fault was drinking. One or two drinks intoxicated him, and all that he did was done when thus half-demented; his mind was analytical rather than synthetical; he wrote "The Raven" and "The Gold Bug" backwards, and he spent hours discussing secret writing and inventing ciphers.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915.
  3. Part One: Letters, Manuscripts, Other Documents

"DREI GEDICHTE VON EDGAR ALLAN POE, " translated by Eduard Engel, and "EINE NEUE GESAMMTAUSGABE VON EDGAR POE'S WERKEN, " by Eduard Engel, 1880 Box 13

In German. Engel translates three of Poe's poems into German ("To Helen," "The Raven," "To One in Paradise"), pp. 117-119, and reviews Ingram's four-volume edition of Poe's works, pp. 119-121.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915.
  3. Part Four: Printed Matter from Magazines, Newspapers, and Books

DR. MILES GEORGE, letter to EDWARD V. VALENTINE, 1880 4 pp. Box 7

Enclosed in Item 352. Poe was not his roommate at the University of Virginia. Poe roomed on the West side of the Lawn, afterwards moving to the West Range. George remembers a "pugilistic combat," but "it was a boyish freak & frolic." Poe was fond of reading other poets and his own poetry to entertain his friends, then suddenly he would begin sketching with charcoal on the walls of his room. He was excitable, restless, at times wayward, melancholic, and morose. In other moods he would be frolicsome, full of fun, and a most attractive and agreeable companion. He was of a delicate mold and slender; his legs were not bowed, and he weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. To calm himself he too often put himself under the influence of wine.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection ca. 1829-ca. 1915.
  3. Part One: Letters, Manuscripts, Other Documents

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