Text: Anonymous, “Monument to the Poet Poe,” Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), vol. LXXVI, no. 49, January 11, 1875, p. 4, col. 5

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Monument to the Poet Poe. Mr. Wm Elliot, Jr., president of the Baltimore City College, states that a sufficient sum has been raised through the of the public school teachers agency of Baltimore, the ladies of the Female High Schools, and Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, formerly a Baltimorean, to erect a monument to the memory of the poet Edgar A. Poe, whose remains are buried in Westminster church-yard in this city. The monument has been designed by Mr. George A. Frederick, architect of Baltimore. It will cost $1,500. The style will be chaste and simple, and the material Italian marble. One panel will bear a medalion [[medallion]] in bas relief of Poe; the other panels to be suitably inscribed.