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We are indebted to Messrs. Sanxay & Chalmers, the successors of W. A. Pratt in his well known Richmond Dagurrean Gallery, for an excellent Daguerreotype of the late Edgar Allan Poe, taken but two weeks previous to the death. The likeness is very perfect, and as the only accurate one in existence of the greatest genius of his time, possesses a great value. At the very moment it was handed to us, we were reading of the movement on foot in New York to build a monument to Poe, who lies in the [column 2:] Fayette street burial-ground, at Baltimore, without a mark to designate his grave. We are sure that many of the admirers of his wonderful writings will esteem it a privilege to unite in this tardy testimonial. How sweet an inscription might not be graven on his tomb from the poet's verses —
My tantalized spirit
Here blandly reposes, —
Forgetting or never
Regretting its roses,
Its old agitations
Of myrtles and roses.
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Notes:
This item appears at the end of the “Editor's Table,” just before the section of “Notices of New Works.”
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[S:0 - SLM, 1856] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - Editor's Table (John R. Thompson, 1856)