Lieutenant Alexander Slidell


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Lieutenant Alexander Slidell

Lieutenant Alexander Slidell

(Born: April 6, 1803 - Died: September 13, 1848)

American naval officer and author. To comply with a request from a childless uncle on his mother’s side, he legally added a new last name of Mackenzie in 1838.

 


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  • Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Alexander Slidell Mackenzie,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:360-365
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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