Text: Anonymous, “[Obituary of Edgar A. Poe],” Semi-Weekly Union (Washington, DC), October 9, 1849


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EDITORS’ CORRESPONDENCE.

From our Baltimore Correspondent.

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BALTIMORE, October 8 — 5 p. m.

The Keystone State election. — Death of Edgar A. Poe. — The Maryland election. — The cattle. show. — Amusements — Decrease of crime. — Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The markets, &c.

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Edgar A. Poe, the distinguished poet and critic, died yesterday at the Washington Hospital, where he has been lying since election day in a most deplorable condition. He was found by some friends in the street, and taken to the hospital in a deranged state, where the most unremitting attention was given him. He had just returned from a visit to Virginia, where he had delivered several series of most able lectures to delighted audiences, and has now fallen a victim to that frailty that is so often the besetting sin of an erratic genius.

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Notes:

Information for this obituary was problably suypplied by Joseph Evans Snodgrass, indirectly or directly as the unnamed “Baltimore Correspondent.”

 

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