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John Gorham Palfrey











(Born: May 2, 1796 - Died: April 26, 1881)

American editor, educator, publicist, historian, and author. He was a professor of sacred literature at Harvard, 1831-1839, also becoming the Dean of the Faculty. He was editor of the Christian Examiner, 1824-1825, and later served as the editor and publisher of the North American Review, 1836-1842.
John Gorham Palfrey














Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "Autography"
    • "J. G. Palfrey" ("Autography" - part I) — February 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
    • "J. G. Palfrey" ("A Chapter on Autography" - part I) — November 1841 — Graham's Magazine








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)
  • Mott, Frank Luther, 1:284, 285-286. and 2:219 and 220.
  • 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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