Text: Eugene L. Didier (?), “Literary Chit-Chat,” New York Herald (New York, NY), whole no. 15,133, January 27, 1878, p. 6, col. 3

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LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

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The statement which was published in an English periodical a few weeks since to the effect that Mr. John H. Ingram, of London, had come into the possession of a hitherto unknown romance, by Edgar A. Poe, is untrue. The paper which Mr. Ingram claims as “hitherto unknown” appeared before this man was born in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. There it did not attain to the dignity of a “romance.” It is simply a bare résumé of the explorations made to the Rocky Mountains, with a few pages added — the beginning of the romance which never came to be. This paper has, of course, never been included in Poe's works. It is the merest fragment. This Mr. Ingram, who has exhumed it with such a flourish, is the same enterprising person who, in the summer of 1876, republished Poe's juvenile poems as an interesting “novelty” in the Gentleman's Magazine of London.

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