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POE'S HOMES HERE.
The Tablets That Are to Commemorate the Poet's Residences.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN — Sir: editorial article remarking on the fulfilment of Poe's prophecy comes with especial timeliness just now.
For as I open THE SUN this morning find in my mail proposition from the New York Shakespeare Society to commemorate this year, which is the seventieth anniversary of Poe's death. by affixing tablets to the buildings now occupying the sites of his six residences in this city.
We are exploiting so many “drives” for millions — and in spite of war aftermaths seem to have the millions necessary to meet them all — that I hope the very inconsiderable sum required by this very worthy society for this most estimable purpose will be forthcoming.
New York city ought not to forget Edgar Allan Poe. It has already dedicated a splendid park to his memory, and except Shakespeare's cottage at Stratford Poe's is the only poet's domicile now preserved as an English shrine. Except the placing of these six tablets — or five, rather, for the society has placed one of them already nothing apparently remains for New York to do.
H. K. L.
NEW YORK, July 9.
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Notes:
A followup inquiry appears in The Sun for July 16, 1919, p. 10, col. 5:
Poe's New York Homes.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN — Sir: A respondent of THE SUN recently referred to movement to mark the six New York me where these houses homes of Poe with tablets. Can you tell are?
BALTIMOREAN,
NEW YORK, July 15.
The Poe cottage at Fordham is already marked. The Shakespeare Society of New York, which is inviting contributions, says in its circular: “There remain to be placed Ave other tablets at (In the order of occupancy) 13-131 Carmine street (present number 13), 130 Greenwich street, the Brennen Mansion, which stood near what is now the northwest corner of Broadway and Eighty-fifth street, 15 Amity (now West Third) and 195 East Broadway.”
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[S:0 - SNY, 1919] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - Poe's Homes Here (H. K. L., 1919)