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Freeman Hunt











(Born: March 21, 1804 - Died: March 2, 1858)

American publisher and biographer. He founded Hunt's Merchants' Magazine in July 1839, which he supervised until his death, after which it was continued by other hands. He married Laura Faxon Phinney.














Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "The Literati"
    • "Freeman Hunt" ("The Literati of New York City" - No. II) — June 1846 — Godey's Lady's Book
    • "Freeman Hunt" ("The Literati") — 1850 — WORKS








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B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the "Literati" Sketches and of Poe's Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.





 
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