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Lambert Alexander Wilmer
(Born: ca. 1805 - Died: December 21, 1863)
American journalist and author. Wilmer owned a manuscript collection of Poe’s poetry, presumably prepared about 1828 for Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829) and left to (or retrieved by) Wilmer after the book was published. In later years, Poe erroneously considered Wilmer to be a personal enemy, following an expression by Wilmer to a mutual friend that he was concerned about Poe’s drinking. Even after Poe’s death, Wilmer wrote several brief but friendly defenses of Poe.
He married Sidney Ann Wilmer (ca. 1810-1893), and they had 13 children, of whom several died in infancy. (One daughter died at 1 year, in 1853.)
- Review of The Confessions of Emilia Harrington (February 1836, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
- Review of The Quacks of Helicon: A Satire
- Review of The Quacks of Helicon: A Satire (August 1841, text “A” — Graham’s Magazine)
- Review of The Quacks of Helicon — A Satire (1856, text “B” — Works)
- Notice from “Autography”
- “L. A. Wilmer” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
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- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, “Cairo, Francis Lillian Wilmer,” Woman’s Who’s Who of America, ed. John William Leonard, New York: The American Commonwealth Co., 1914, p. 155.
- 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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