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Robert M. Morris











(Born: ca. 1809 - Died: May 3, 1874)

American editor, author, and minor poet. Along with many authors, Morris submitted a tale to the Dollar Newspaper contest in 1843, winning second place, behind Poe's first place prize for "The Gold-Bug." Morris's tale was titled "The Banker's Daughter." Morris was the editor of the Pennsylvania Inquirer. He was, for several years, the president of the Commonwealth Bank.

A number of his essays and articles were collected as Courtship and Matrimony, with Other Sketches, from Scenes and Experiences in Social Life, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1858.
Robert M. Morris














Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "Autography"
    • "R. M. Morris" ("A Chapter on Autography" - part II) — December 1841 — Graham's Magazine








Bibliography:
  • "Obituary," New York Times, May 4, 1874, p. 1, col. 7

  • "Morris, Robert M.," The Biographical  Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century,  Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874, p. 276.
  • 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)
  • Peterson, Charles J., "Our Contributors -- No. XXI: Robert Morris," Graham's Magazine, October 1845, 28:183-185
  • 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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