Edgar Allan Poe (24 page)

5
Poe to Sarah J. Hale, 29 May 1844, in
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 705.

6
Edgar Allan Poe,
Collected Works
, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, 3 vols (Cambridge,
MA
, 1969–78), vol.
III
, p. 933.

7
Judith E. Pike, ‘Poe and the Revenge of the Exquisite Corpse’,
Studies in American Fiction
,
XXVI
(1998), p. 172.

8
Kevin J. Hayes,
Poe and the Printed Word
(Cambridge, 2000), pp. 4–5.

9
Lydia Huntley Sigourney, ‘The Last Supper’,
Episcopal Recorder
, x (1833), p. 196.

10
Edgar A. Poe, ‘The Premature Burial’,
Toledo Blade
, 4 July 1845; ‘Burying Alive’,
Toledo Blade
, 15 August 1845.

11
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
III
, p. 961.

12
Ibid., vol.
III
, p. 969.

13
Ibid.

14
Ibid., vol.
III
, p. 941.

15
Ibid., vol.
III
, p. 1040.

16
‘American Magazines’,
New World
, 3 August 1844, p. 132.

17
Edgar A. Poe, ‘The Last Conversation of a Somnabule’,
Penny Satirist
, 8 November 1845, p. 4; ‘Mesmeric Revelation’,
Dissector
,
I
(1844), pp. 185–9; ‘Mesmeric Revelation’,
Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate
,
XVI
(1845), pp. 364–5.

18
Poe to Thomas Holley Chivers, 10 July 1844,
Letters
, vol.
I
, p. 260.

19
Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson,
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849
(Boston,
MA
, 1987), p. 470.

20
Ibid., p. 473.

21
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
III
, p. 1141.

22
Ibid., vol.
III
, p. 1191.

23
Edgar Allan Poe,
Essays and Reviews
, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York, 1984), p. 19.

24
Ezra Greenspan, ‘Evert Duyckinck and the History of Wiley and Putnam’s Library of American Books, 1845–1847’,
American Literature
,
LXIV
(1992), p. 682.

25
Kenneth Silverman,
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
(New York, 1991), p. 260.

26
Thomas Holley Chivers,
Life of Poe
, ed. Richard Beale Davis (New York, 1952), pp. 39–52, the source of the following exchange.

27
Silverman,
Edgar A. Poe
, p. 309.

28
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 579.

29
Ibid., p. 518.

30
Poe,
Collected Works
, vol.
III
, p. 1243.

1
Mayne Reid, ‘A Dead Man Defended’,
Onward
,
I
(1869), p. 306; Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson,
The Poe Log: A Documentary
Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849
(Boston,
MA
, 1987), pp. 242, 380.

2
Reid, ‘A Dead Man Defended’, p. 306; Thomas Holley Chivers,
Life of Poe
, ed. Richard Beale Davis (New York, 1952), p. 42.

3
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 625.

4
Edgar Allan Poe,
Essays and Reviews
, ed. G. R. Thompson (New York, 1984), p. 1197.

5
Kenneth Silverman,
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance
(New York, 1991), p. 284.

6
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 622.

7
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, ‘Autobiographic Notes’,
Beadle’s Monthly
,
III
(1867), p. 155.

8
Ibid., p. 156.

9
Mary Gove Nichols,
Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe
(New York, 1974), pp. 8–9.

10
Poe,
Essays
, p. 1162.

11
Ibid., pp. 1166–7.

12
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 648.

13
Ibid., p. 663.

14
Poe,
Essays
, p. 21.

15
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 726.

16
Silverman,
Edgar A. Poe
, p. 349.

17
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, pp. 729–30.

18
Poe to Annie L. Richmond, 16 November 1848, in Edgar Allan Poe,
Letters
, ed. John Ward Ostrom, 2 vols (New York, 1966), vol.
II
, p. 401.

19
Poe,
Essays
, pp. 71–94.

20
For a discussion of the differences between these types of magazines, see Kevin J. Hayes,
Poe and the Printed Word
(Cambridge, 2000), p. 93.

21
Poe to F. W. Thomas, 14 February 1849,
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 427.

22
Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 844.

23
Ibid., p. 845.

24
Poe to F. W. Thomas, 14 February 1849,
Letters
, vol.
II
, p. 427.

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—,
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—
,
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