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Christopher Pearse Cranch











(Born: March 8, 1813 - Died: January 20, 1892)

American painter, transcendentalist and poet. His middle name is also given as Pease, although Pearse appears to be the more correct form. He was born in Alexandria, VA, as the last of ten children. His parents were Nancy Greenleaf and William Cranch. His father was a judge. He is best known for his landscape paintings. A collection of his humorous drawings may be found in the Houghton Library of Harvard University (and these were published in 1951).
Christopher Pearse Cranch














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Bibliography:
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Reece, James B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the "Literati" Sketches and of Poe's Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.
  • Scott, Leonora Cranch, The Life and Letters of Christopher Pearse Cranch, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917  (this book was written by Cranch's daughter)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
  • Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 1:768 (in an entry on William Cranch)





 
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