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Title page:
LIFE
AND LETTERS
OF
Edgar Allan Poe
By
JAMES A. HARRISON
of the University of Virginia
——
VOLUME II.
NEW YORK
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
PUBLISHERS
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction · · · · · · · · · ·
v
CHAPTER I.
1829-1835.
Richmond; West Point; Baltimore; Contributor to the “Southern Literary Messenger” ·
1
CHAPTER II.
January, 1836 - January, 1837.
25
CHAPTER III.
January, 1837 - December, 1840.
41
CHAPTER IV.
September, 1840 - 1841.
The Poe-Snodgrass Correspondence · · · · ·
68
CHAPTER V.
March, 1841 - May, 1842.
Editor of “Graham's Magazine” · · ·
81
CHAPTER VI.
May, 1842 - April, 1844.
108
CHAPTER VII.
April, 1844 - December, 1844.
First Months in New York; Lowell, R. H. Horne, C. G. Briggs; “The Evening Mirror” · ·
165
CHAPTER VIII.
1845.
“The Raven;” “The Broadway Journal;” The 1845 Tales; “The Collected Poems” · · ·
196
CHAPTER IX.
January, 1846 - January, 1847.
Fordham; English-Poe Controversy; Mrs. Marie Louise Shew; Death of Virginia Poe · ·
227
CHAPTER X.
February, 1847 - December, 1847.
Fordham · · ·
277
CHAPTER XI.
1848.
“Eureka;” “Marie Louise;” Sarah Helen Whitman; “Annie” · · ·
287
CHAPTER XII.
January, 1849 - March, 1849.
The “Annie;” Letters continued; “The Bells;” “Annabel Lee” · · ·
326
CHAPTER XIII.
April, 1849 - September, 1849.
The Patterson Letters; “Stella;” Lectures in Richmond · · ·
348
CHAPTER XIV.
Letters relating to Poe · · ·
371
Appendix · · ·
441
Index · · ·
465
Table of Illustrations
ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME II
EDGAR ALLAN POE · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Frontispiece
From a daguerreotype in the possession of “Stella.” This is probably from the same plate as the daguerreotype referred to in the letter from Gabriel Harrison to Mrs. Clemm.
PHILLIP P. COOKE · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
49
From [[an]] engraving by Graham.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
86
From engraving, by Smith, of portrait by Lawrence.
THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS · · · ·
115
LETTER FROM POE TO THOMAS C. CLARKE (Facsimile) · · · · · · ·
134
WILLIAM POE · · · · · · ·
145
Cousin of the poet. From the original in the possession of Mrs. W. Y. Dill, his granddaughter.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL · · · · · · ·
191
From [[a]] photograph.
NATHANIEL P. WILLIS · · · · · · ·
206
From [[an]] engraving, by Smith, of portrait by Elliot.
JOHN P. KENNEDY · · · · · · ·
224
From [[an]] engraving by F. M. Whelpley.
THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH · · · · · · ·
253
From [[a]] photograph.
L. A. GODEY · · · · · · ·
257
From [[an]] engraving.
E. A. DUYCKINCK · · · · · · ·
273
From [[a]] steel engraving.
“STELLA” (Estelle Anna Lewis) · · · · · · ·
286
From an engraving by Allard, after a photograph.
LETTER FROM POE TO MRS. WHITMAN (Facsimile) · · · · · · ·
320
ELMIRA ROYSTER SHELTON · · · · · · ·
396
From the original daguerreotype in the possession of her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Shelton Leftwich. Copyright, 1902, by E. S. Leftwich.
JUDGE NEILSON POE · · · · · · ·
400
From [[a]] photograph.
JOHN R. THOMPSON · · · · · · ·
403
From [[a]] steel engraving by Ritchie.
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