Text: John H. Ingram, “[Comment on] New Glimpses of Poe,” Athenaeum (London, UK), whole no. 3879, March 1, 1902, p. 274, col. 2

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’NEW GLIMPSES OF POE.’

PROF. HARRISON'S ‘New Glimpses,’ noticed in the last number of the Athenæum, do not appear to offer much fresh material about Edgar Poe. The account of the poet's last night at the University of Virginia is from the statement furnished to me by the late Mr. W. Wertenbaker, and is given in full in my ‘Life and Letters of Edgar Poe,’ first published in 1880, and now included in the “Minerva Library of Famous Books.’‘ Nearly every fellow student and professor alive thirty years ago who had known Poe at the Charlottesville University, as well as those people who really knew him in later life, assisted me in my biography of the poet. Amongst others Profs. George Long and T. H. Key communicated their quota to my story. It is just seventy-six years since Poe matriculated, and it is almost certain that not a single man who knew him then is now alive.

JOHN H. INGRAM.