Text: John C. Miller, ed., “Entry 125: Sarah Helen Whitman to John H. Ingram, Nov. 26, 1875,” Poe's Helen Remembers (1979), p. 371 (This material is protected by copyright)

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125. Sarah Helen Whitman to John H. Ingram. Postcard. Item 264

I send tonight some papers, N. York Tribune, N. York Evening Post (!), Baltimore Evening News, etc., with proof copy of an article to appear in tomorrow's Journal, Nov. 28 [sic]. The extract is from a private letter to S.H.W. by W. D. O’Connor. More by next mail.

Mr. Lewis's statement is interesting but not quite accurate as to dates, as when he says Mrs. C[lemm] made her home with him from the autumn of 1849 to the summer of 1856. We know that at least two or three years of the time were spent with Mrs. H[oughton] & in Lowell.(1) Have not yet had the paper on Politian.

 

1. Sylvanus D. Lewis's account of his associations with Poe and Mrs. Clemm was written for the ceremonies at the unveiling of Poe's monument in the Westminster Churchyard, Baltimore, Nov. 17, 1875, and it was printed in various newspaper accounts of that occasion.