Text: Mary E. Phillips, “Illustration,” Edgar Allan Poe: The Man (1926), illustration, vol. I, p. 458


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Illustration

THE SEVEN STARS TAVERN, WATER STREET, NEAR MARSH-MARKET SPACE, BALTIMORE, MD.

First Odd Fellows Lodge in America and where Poe and “Milford Bard,” John Lofland, held a rhyme contest in the 1830's. Poe, losing, was held for wine supper here

Old print. Courtesy of Wm. J. McClellan


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Notes:

None.


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