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Prosper Montgomery Wetmore












(Born: February 15, 1798 - Died: March 16, 1876)

American author and poet. Twelve bound volumes of his correspondence are among the Delafield Family Papers in the Princeton University Library.

















Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "Autography"
    • "Prosper M. Wetmore" ("An Appendix of Autographs") — January 1842 — Graham's Magazine
  • Notice from "The Literati"










Bibliography:
  • Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., "Prosper M. Wetmore," Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:279-280 (which gives the year of his birth as 1799)
  • 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B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the "Literati" Sketches and of Poe's Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.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.
  • Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 6:445-446







 
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