Text: Anonymous, “[Announcement of Gill's Life of Poe],” The Argonaut (San Francisco, CA), vol. II, no. 3, January 26, 1878, p. 7, col. 2

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Wm. F. Gill promises a new edition of his Life of Poe, enlarged by some forty pages of new matter, and with a fac-simile of a previously unpublished letter by him. It will include Poe's critique on Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, published in the Museum, Philadelphia, in 1843, and preserved by Thos. Cotrell Clarke, who was associated with Poe in the editorship of that paper. It is interesting, not only for its place in the Poe-Griswold controversy, but also as containing the germs of his essay on versification, in this first sketch of which Griswold's poetry is made the “awful example.” A letter of Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss, formerly Miss Tully [[Talley]], of Richmond, furnishes some interesting particulars as to Poe's life in that city.