Text: Anonymous, “[The Poe Monument],” New York Tribune (New York, NY), vol. XXXV, whole no. 10,623, April 19, 1875, p. 8, col. 1

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The long-talked-of monument to Edgar A. Poe will be erected early in the Summer over the poet's grave in Westminster Cemetery, Baltimore. The column be of the finest Maryland marble, of a simple, but will chaste and elegant design. On one side will be a medallion portrait of Poe: on each of the other sides there will be appropriate verses, selected frown the poet's writings. The whole will be surmounted by a marble effigy of a raven. The base of the monument will contain the following simple inscription: “Edgar A. Poe, born Jan. 19, 1811. Died Oct. 7, 1849. Author of ‘The Raven’ My tantalized spirit here blandly reposes.” No stone has marked the spot where the poet is buried. Within a year of his death a tombstone was prepared, but it was accidentally broken only a few days before it was to be erected. Now, more than a quarter of a century later, his long-neglected and almost unknown grave will be adorned by a monument erected by the public school teachers of Baltimore.