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TAUGHT AT CATONSVILLE
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Mr. Didier Thinks Dr. Harrison Printed Too Much By Poe.
Mr. Eugene L. Didier, 1722 North Calvert street, the well-known authority upon the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, was a friend of Dr. J. A. Harrison, who Tuesday at. Charlottesville. discussing the Virginia professor's writings and characteristics Tuesday night, he said:
“I knew Dr. Harrison when he was 8 young man in this city. For about four years he taught in a private school at Catonsville. He left here in the early seventies for Washington and Lee University, where he took a professorship in English literature. “His first book, ‘A Group of Poets and Their was published about 1875. It was in the nature of a literary history. His best-known work, however, was his Virginia edition of Poe, in 17 volumes, containing two volumes of the life and letters of the poet.
“In a criticism of this book, which is included in my last work, ‘Poe Cult and Other Poe published in 1909. I state that this Virginia, edition is, if anything, too voluminous, containing many writings of Poe which were immature, and which the famous author would hardly have liked to have republished. My opinion as to the literary value of Harrison's work and the style of the author have already been expressed; but while I think the edition was in some details imperfect and, perhaps, edited without due discrimination. I can say that the Virginia edition reveals a wonderful amount of industrious research, and will probably remain for many years the standard collection of Poe's complete works.
“I have not seen Dr. Harrison for several years, but we have been corresponding for a long time. Personally I always found him to be a most courteous and obliging gentleman. When I went to Europe several years ago Dr. Harrison gave me a letter of introduction to Moses Ezekiel, the Virginia sculptor, and it was through this that, in the artist's studio in Rome, I had the pleasure of meeting the well-known American novelist, F. Marion Crawford.”
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Dr. J. A. Harrison Buried.
A special dispatch to THE SUN last night from Charlottesville, says:
The body of Dr. James A. Harrison was conveyed to Lexington today, and the funeral will take place there tomorrow. Prof. Charles A. Graves, who was Dr. Harrison's colleague in the faculty of Washington and Lee University, as well as in that of the University of Virginia, attended the body as the representative of the latter institution. The faculty and officers sent a handsome floral wreath.
The following honorary pallbearers attended the funeral procession from Dr. Harrison's late residence in this city to the Union Station:
Profs. —
J. W. Mallet,
Thomas Fitzhugh,
William M. Fontaine,
R. H. Whitehead,
Ormond Stone,
A. M. Dobie,
William M. Thornton,
W. H. Faulkner,
F. P. Dunnington,
H. E. Jordan,
A. H. Tuttle,
Judge John M. White,
Charles W. Kent,
Daniel Harmon,
W. M. Lile,
Dr. E. M. Magruder,
W. H. Echols,
John S. Patton,
R. H. Dabney,
Howard Winston,
C. A. Graves,
J. K. Moran,
J. S. Davis,
Bartlett Bolling,
R. C. Minor,
Albert S. Bolling,
R. H. Wilson,
Charles P. Oliver.
J. M. Page.
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - BS, 1911] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - Taught at Catonsville (Euguene L. Didier, 1911)