Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People

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Sections: Biography Criticism Bibliography

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(Born: ca. 1799 - Died: August 25, 1858)

His mother was Elizabeth Nicholson. Jeremiah’s middle name may have been Nicholson, after his mother’s maiden name. His father appears to have died in 1805 or 1806, and his mother married Job Jefferis, as his third wife, about 1808. (The first child of this new union was born late in 1809.) Jeremiah was born in Cumberland County, PA. He was living in New York when he died, but may have been travelling in Canada at the time. A brief obituary appears in the New York Evening Post of August 27, 1858.

Criticism:

Review of Voyage of the U. S. Frigate Potomac (June 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
Review of South-Sea Expedition (January 1837, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
Review of A Brief Account of the Discoveries and Results of the United States Exploring Expedition (September 1843, text “A” — Graham’s)
Notice from “Autography”
- “J. N. Reynolds” (“Autography” - part I) — February 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
- “J. N. Reynolds” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

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Bibliography:

Almy, R. F, “J. N. Reynolds: A Brief Biography,” Colophon, 1937, n. s. 2:227-245.
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)
Starke, Aubrey, “Poe’s Friend Reynolds,” American Literature, May 1939, 11:152-166.
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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