Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Papers

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~~ 1851-1859 ~~

“Edgar A. Poe” by John Savage
- “Edgar A. Poe [Part I]” by John Savage, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, December 1850
- “Edgar A. Poe [Part II]” by John Savage, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, January 1851
- “Edgar A. Poe [Part III]” by John Savage, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, February 1851

“Character of Edgar A. Poe” by C. Chauncey Burr (The Nineteeth Century, February 1852)
“Poe, Poets, Etc.” by Catherine Ledyard, Supplement to the Evening Post (New York), March 21, 1853
“Edgar A. Poe”
- “Edgar A. Poe” by George Lippard, Sunday Mercury (Philadelphia, PA) (about late September or early October 1853)
- “Edgar A. Poe” by George Lippard, Weekly News (Charleston, SC) (October, 3 1853)
- “Edgar A. Poe” by George Lippard, Dodge’s Literary Museum (Boston, MA) (October 21, 1853)

“The Genius and Character of Edgar Allan Poe” by George Rex Graham, Graham’s Magazine, February 1854
“Edgar A. Poe” by Evert A. and George L. Duyckinck (Cyclopedia of American Literature, 1856)
“Edgar A. Poe” by Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, United States Magazine, March 1857
“Edgar Allan Poe” by W. Moy Thomas, Train (April 1857).
“The Raven — by Edgar A. Poe” by John R. Thompson, Southern Literary Messenger, November 1857, p. 331-335)
“Letter About Edgar Poe” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, Home Journal (New York), October 30, 1858

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~~ 1860-1869 ~~

“Edgar Poe and His Critics” by Sarah Helen Whitman, Edgar Poe and His Critics, New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860.
“A Lament for Edgar A. Poe” by J. S. G., the Independent (NY) (January 5, 1860) (a poem)
“Reminiscences of Edgar Poe” by Mary Gove Nichols, Sixpenny Magazine (February 1, 1863).
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Henry Herring, Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser (October 9, 1865).
“A Monument to Edgar A. Poe” by Anonymous, Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser (December 19, 1865).
“Poe and His Biographer, Griswold” by George Washington Eveleth, Old Guard (New York), June 1866.
“Recollection of Edgar A. Poe” by Lambert A. Wilmer, Daily Commercial (Baltimore), May 23, 1866.
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Mrs. Susan Archer T. Weiss, New York Weekly Review (October 6, 1866).
“[Recollections of Edgar A. Poe]” by Frederick W. Thomas, from manuscript notes, now apparently lost, 1864-1866
“Autobiographical Notes: Edgar Allan Poe” by Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Beadle’s Monthly (February, 1867)
“Facts of Poe’s Death and Burial” by J. E. Snodgrass
- “Facts of Poe’s Death and Burial” by J. E. Snodgrass, Beadle’s Monthly (March 1867)
- “Poe’s Death and Burial” by J. E. Snodgrass, New York Times (Feb. 24, 1867, p. 2, col. 6)

“Another View of Edgar A. Poe” by Margaret E. Wilmer, Beadle’s Monthly (April 1867)
“Edgar Allan Poe” by W. A. Chandos Fulton, New York Weekly Review (March 11, 1867).
“Poe at West Point” by Thomas W. Gibson
- “Poe at West Point” by Thomas W. Gibson, Harper’s Monthly Magazine (November 1867)
- “Poe at West Point” [by Thomas W. Gibson], New York Times (October 27, 1867, p. 2, cols. 2-3)

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~~ 1870-1879 ~~

Review of the Ingram edition of Poe’s Works by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Academy, January 2, 1875
“The Monument to Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous
- “The Monument to Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous, New York Herald, October 28, 1875.
- “The Monument to Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous, Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1876 (reprinted in subsequent editions)

“Official Memorandum of the Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Dr. John J. Moran
- “Official Memorandum of the Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Dr. John J. Moran, New York Herald, October 28, 1875.
- “Official Memorandum of the Death of Edgar A. Poe” by Dr. John J. Moran, Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1876 (reprinted in subsequent editions)

“Edgar A. Poe and His Biographer, Rufus W. Griswold” by William Fearing Gill, Lotos Leaves, Boston: W. F. Gill & Co., 1875 (Reprinted in 1885 by Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co.)
“Edgar A. Poe” by Mrs. Susan Archer T. Weiss (New York Herald, April 26, 1876) (replying to Mrs. E. O. Smith’s article on Poe’s death, from the Home Journal)
“Some New Facts about Edgar A. Poe” by William Fearing Gill, Laurel Leaves, Boston: W. F. Gill & Co., 1876
“[Review of Gill’s Life of Edgar Allan Poe]” by Anonymous, Lippincott’s Magazine, October 1877.
“Last Days of Edgar A. Poe” by Mrs. Susan Archer T. Weiss (Scribner’s Magazine, March 1878)
“Our Monthly Gossip [Poe and Mrs. Whitman]” by Eugene L. Didier, Lippincott’s Magazine, October 1878
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Anonymous, The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and District of Columbia, Baltimore: National Biographical Publishing Co., 1879.
“Edgar Allan Poe’s Grave” by William P. Meany, The Celtic Monthly, (New York), September 1879.

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~~ 1880-1889 ~~

“Old Oddity Papers, IV: Edgar Allan Poe While a Student at the University of Virginia” by Douglass Sherley, Virginia University Magazine, March and April 1880, 19:376-381 and 19:426-445.
“The Rationale of the Raven” by William Fearing Gill, Papyrus Leaves, New York: R. Worthington, 1880 (reprinted in 1888 by New York: Belford, Clarke)
“Comment on the Poem” by Edmund Clarence Stedman (The Raven, 1884)
“Poe’s Mary” by Augustus Van Cleef, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (March 1889), pp. 634-640.
“Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe” by John Sartain
- “Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe” by John Sartain, Lippincott’s (March 1889), pp. 411-415.
- “Edgar Allan Poe” by John Sartain, Reminiscences of a Very Old Man (New York: D. Appleton, 1899), pp. 196-217.

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~~ 1890-1899 ~~

“Some Memorials of Edgar Allan Poe” by Clara Dargan Maclean, Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (April 1891), pp. 457-464.
“To Edgar Allan Poe” by Andrew Lang, Letters to Dead Authors, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891
“Poe’s Burial and Grave” by Anonymous [possibly William P. Meany], The New-York Times (Feb. 26, 1893)
“Edgar Allan Poe” by Andrew Lang, The Independent (New York), November 23, 1899
“Preface” by Henry Austin, The Gold-Bug and The Black Cat, New York: R. F. Fenno & Co., 1899
“Preface” by Henry Austin, The Mystery of Marie Roget, New York: R. F. Fenno & Co., 1899
“Preface” by Henry Austin, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, New York: R. F. Fenno & Co., 1899

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[S:0 - JAS] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Articles and Essays - 1851-1899

Articles and Essays, 1851-1899