Text: Dwight R. Thomas, “Index: M-Z,” Poe in Philadelphia, 1838-1844 (1978), pp. 982-997

McCabe, John Collins: 844.

MacGrawler, Peter: 628-29.

McHenry, James: 506-07, 844-45.

McJilton, John N.: 245, 252, 330, 352, 845.

MacKenzie, Miss Jane: 162-63, 846.

MacKenzie, Mrs. Jane: 546, 549, 873.

MacKenzie, John: 211-12, 846.

MacKenzie, Thomas: 548-49, 846.

MacKenzie, William (the elder): 163, 212, 546, 549, 846, 873.

MacKenzie, William (the younger): 545-46, 846.

McMakin, Andrew: 198, 576, 610, 618, 813-14, 846-47.

McMichael, Morton: 53, 106, 496, 507, 584-85, 847-48, 890, 893, 895.

McMurtrie, Henry: 8, 29-30, 848, 950.

McMurtrie, James: 806-07, 848-49.

Maelzel's Chess Player: 853.

Magruder, Allan B.: 6.

“The Man of the Crowd”: 176.

“The Man Who Was Used Up” [[“The Man That Was Used Up”]]: 56, 107. See also The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe­.

Marryat, Frederick: 324, 326, 331-32.

Marshall, John: 849.

Martin, John: 107.

Martineau, Harriet: 325-26, 331.

“The Mask of the Red Death”: 368.

Mathews, Cornelius: 308, 319, 332-33, 369-70, 489, 690-91, 849-50.

Matthias, Benjamin: 850.

Maupin, Socrates: 162-63, 850-51.

Meek, Alexander B.: 615, 619.

Mellen, Grenville: 8, 851.

Metcalfe, Joseph: 186, 198.

Military Magazine (Philadelphia): 35-36.

Millington, John: 210, 212, 851.

Minor, Benjamin Blake: 608.

Minor, Lucian: 3, 155-56, 851-52.

Mitchell, John Kearsley: 58, 113, 496, 507-08, 852-54, 946.

Mitchell, Langdon: 853.

Mitchell, Silas Weir: 852-53.

Montgomery, John C.: 182, 464.

“Morella”: 71, 79-80.

“Morning on the Wissahiccon” (“The Elk”): 660, 743.

Morrell, Charles R.: 51-53, 121, 208, 210, 854.

Morris, George P.: 8, 104, 197, 246, 622, 854.

Morris, John B.: 631, 808, 855.

Morris, Robert: 496, 507-08, 555, 567, 570, 574, 576, 596, 605, 648-49, 656, 664, 855-56.

Moxon, Edward: 343, 467-68, 477.

“MS. Found in a Bottle”: 96, 103, 107, 828.

Munroe, Isaac: 674, 856.

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”: sources for, 22, 50-51, 57-59, 118-19, 162-63; publication, 206-07; Thomas’ opinion of, 212, 221; its popularity, 245; original manuscript rescued from wastebasket, 822-24. See also The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe­.

Murdock, E. M.: 856-57.

Murdoch, James Edward: 857-58.

Muzzy, Harriet: 507-08.

Myers, John C.: 658, 685-86.

“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”: 250, 390-92, 401, 406, 448-49, 454, 468-70, 473-74, 479, 499-500, 904.

“Mystification”: 10.

Nano, Signor Hervio: 118-19.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: announced as forthcoming, 9; copyrighted, 11; publication, 16-17; criticized by Burton, 20-22; favorable reception in England, 34-35; Robert Carter comments on verisimilitude, 571; mentioned, 109, 639, 882.

Neal, John: 139-40, 144-45, 488, 502-03, 543, 630, 782, 858.

Neal, Joseph C.: 60, 93, 555, 858-59, 889-90.

“Never Bet Your Head”: 258, 260, 264-65.

Newark Academy (Poe's lecture on “American Poetry”): 643-44, 655, 662-65.

New York City: Poe leaves Richmond for, 5-7; Booksellers Dinner, 8-9; Poe's visit to (circa June 25, 1842), 400-01, 417-18; reputed Poe visits in 1843 and 1844, 792-96.

New York Review: 5, 10, 12, 433.

Nichols, Mary Grove [[Gove]]: 111.

Nichols, Rebecca S. Reed: 859.

Noah, Mordecai Manuel: 8, 63-64, 859-60.

Norris, J. S.: 7.

“Notes on English Verse”: 502-03, 512.

Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson: 860.

Opium: Poe's reputed use of, 803.

“Original Conundrums”: 540-41.

Osgood, Frances S.: 492-93.

O'sullivan, John L.: 36, 405, 417, 422-23, 436, 438, 860-61.

Otis, James F.: 861.

“Our Amateur Poets”: 512-14, 611-12.

Ourang outangs: 50-51, 57-59, 118-19.

“Our Magazine Literature”: probably not by Poe, 713-14.

“The Oval Portrait” (“Life in Death”): 358.

Pabodie, W. J.: 956.

Page, William: 547-48.

Palfrey, John Gorham: 861-62.

Panic of 1837: 9-10.

Parker, Mrs. Eliza: 826-27.

Parker, William T.: 862, 892.

Parmelee, Charles N.: 51, 53.

Patterson, Henry Stuart: 570, 862.

Patterson, Samuel D.: 493, 515-16, 556-57, 606, 618, 776, 862-63, 949.

Paul, Howard: 715, 717-18, 863-64, 881.

Paulding, James Kirke: 8, 13-15, 77-78, 83, 233-34, 513-14, 606, 864-65.

Payne, John Howard: 864.

Peabody, William B. O.: 865.

Pedder, Anna and Bessie: 865-66.

Pedder, James: 826-27, 865-66.

Penn Magazine­: Poe takes first steps to issue, 133-34; circulates Prospectus, 139-40; favorable reception by Philadelphia papers, 140-47; complete Prospectus appears in Graham's Saturday Evening Post and Du Solle's Spirit of the Times, 142-44, 146-47; Poe has “every hope of success,” 148-49; Poe seeks financial backing, 150; noticed by the Knickerbocker Magazine, 151; Poe asks his Georgia relatives and other correspondents for assistance, 153-57; Prospectus revised, 156; Daily Chronicle carries Prospectus, 158-61; many subscribers from the South, 161; Tomlin aids project, 161-62, 173; Pliny Earle forwards contribution, 163, 166; favorably noticed by Southern and Western papers, 165; Thomas promises an article, 172, 174; postponement of first number, 177, 183-84; Thomas aids project, 179-80; Poe seeks contributions from prominent citizens, 184-85, 187-89, 191-92; “glorious” prospects, 189-91; bank crisis forces cancellation, 193, 195-96; “an excellent list of subscribers,” 196; Poe plans to resume project, 209, 211; Poe plans to issue with Graham's support, 233-37, 239; “some excellent offers,” 259; Graham may still join Poe, 265; hope of Graham's support by July, 1842, 274; Poe asks Thomas whether Robert Tyler can aid project, 320-22, 337-38, 352; Robert Tyler offers Poe a position in Philadelphia Custom House, 379-80, 382-83; Poe discusses Graham's failure to support project, 408-10; Poe solicits support from Bryan and Chivers (July 6, 1842), 408-11; Bryan and Chivers promise support, 413-16; Bryan recommends “travelling agents,” 419-20; Poe's resumption of project reported by New York Mirror and Du Solle's Spirit of the Times, 422, 428; Chivers sends names of four subscribers, 440, 445; Thomas hints that Tyler administration may provide “patronage,” 441-42; Poe believes that anticipated appointment to Custom House will enable him to start Penn, 445-46, 449; Poe suggests that Chivers join him in project, 445-47; Poe solicits Tomlin's support, 449-50; Chivers inquires about project, 480-81; name changed to The Stylus, 509, 519. See The Stylus­.

Percival, James Gates: 396-97.

“Peter Pendulum”: 111.

Peterson, Charles J.: his association with Graham, 40; admitted to Philadelphia bar, 73; acquires “third interest” in Saturday Evening Post, 116; no proprietary interest in Graham's, 167 , 169-70; publishes Lowell's “Callirhöe” in Graham's, 194-95, 201, 204-05; offers Lowell ten dollars a poem, 254-55; his duties on Graham's and the Post, 263-64, 270; Poe's attitude toward, 263-64; hopes to meet Lowell, 273; comments on Poe's notice of Lowell in “Autography,” 293-94; begins his Lady's World of Fashion, 303-04; unable to visit Lowell in Boston, 310; Poe characterizes as “ninny,” 321-22; discusses Dickens visit, 326-27; discusses Poe's critique of Mathews’ Wakondah, 332-33; his objections to abolitionists, 359; objects to Griswold's treatment of Lowell in The Poets and Poetry of America, 365-66, 385-86; helps enlist Griswold as editor of Graham's, 370-71, 384-85; discusses Poe's departure from Graham's, 384-85; reviews Griswold's Poets for Graham's, 385-86; may have opened Daniel Bryan's May 13, 1842, letter to Poe, 421; evidence of friction with Griswold, 432-33; Wilmer's dislike for, 451; comments on Dickens’ American Notes, 460-61; discusses his Lady's World of Fashion, 460-61; discusses Graham's payments to Bryant and Longfellow, 478-79; counsels Lowell on The Pioneer, 482-84; Ann S. Stephens joins his Lady's World, 505; retires from Saturday Evening Post, 515-16; regrets failure of Lowell's Pioneer, 546-47; satirized in Lippard's “Spermaceti Papers,” 556-57, 559-60, 563-64, 573-74, 588-89, 594-95, 599, 606-07, 631-32; Peterson's time occupied by his Lady's World, 622-23; praises Lowell's Poems, 671-72; directory entry, 866-68.

Phantasy-Pieces: 401.

Philadelphia: Poe's arrival in, 1, 13; sensation caused by ourang outangs in, 50-51, 57-59, 118-19; bank crisis in, 193; elections held in, 452; Poe's two lectures on “American Poetry,” 635-36, 639-42, 644-45, 648-49, 666-70; Poe and Virginia leave city, 696.

“The Philosophy of Furniture”: 121.

Phrenology: Poe examined by phrenologists, 266, 274, 282; English's phrenological description of Poe, 652.

Pierpont, John: 868-69.

Pike, Albert: 869.

Pinkerton, E. J.: 205, 210, 212, 869.

Pinkney, Edward Coote: 229-30, 249-50, 437.

The Pioneer (Boston): 464-65, 472-73, 482-84, 486-87, 488-89, 491-92, 493-94, 500, 502-03, 505-06, 512, 524, 535, 539-40, 542, 543, 546-47, 623. See also James Russell Lowell.

“The Pit and the Pendulum”: 444.

Poe, Amelia Fitzgerald: 803.

Poe, General David: 145, 639-40, 869-71.

Poe, David, Jr.: 153, 569, 640, 736, 869-71.

Poe, Eliza: 801-02.

Poe, Elizabeth Arnold: 873.

Poe, George, Jr.: 869-70.

Poe, George W.: 55, 869-70.

Poe, Henry: 126, 377-78, 569, 913-14, 943.

Poe, Neilson: 24-25, 65, 76, 89, 124, 125, 870-71.

Poe, Robert F.: 153-54, 187-88, 871-73.

Poe, Rosalie: 163, 211-12, 546, 549, 572, 873.

Poe, Virginia Clemm: sudden illness (tuberculosis) in January, 1842, 316-17, 320; health improves, 383; recurrent hemorrhage, 387; health “slightly improved,” 404; Poe has “scarcely a faint hope of her recovery,” 429; health “slightly improved,” 437; Thomas regards Virginia as “victim for an early grave” (September 17, 1842), 442; distressed by Poe's intemperance during March, 1843, visit to Washington, 532, 535; “nearly recovered,” 545-46; “much better,” 549; again in poor health, 552-53, 568; leaves Philadelphia with Poe, 696; described in various reminiscences, 757, 788-90, 852, 856-57, 878-80, 902-03, 933; directory entry, 874-75; mentioned, 13, 175, 274-75, 283-84, 338, 381, 443, 563, 736, 808, 913, 952.

Poe, Washington: 153-55, 187-88, 871-73.

Poe, William: 153-54, 187-88, 552-53, 568-69, 736, 871-73.

Pollock, J. R.: 211-12.

Porter, Timothy O.: 102.

Post, Israel: 38, 52-54, 444-45.

“A Predicament”: 22, 30.

Prentice, George D.: 249-50, 265-68, 284, 291-92, 315, 628.

The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe­ (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Man That Was Used Up”): 598-602, 604-05, 609-11, 613, 621-22.

“The Psyche Zenobia” (“How to Write a Blackwood Article”): 30.

“The Purloined Letter”: 695.

Purnell, William H.: 655, 875.

Putnam, George P.: 8.

Putnam, George Washington: 347, 476-77.

“Raising the Wind; or, Diddling”: 618-19, 632.

“The Raven”: sources for, 217, 813, 886; preliminary draft probably completed in Philadelphia, 696; reputed composition at Saratoga Springs, 707-11; Graham said to have rejected poem, 824-25, 893-94; mentioned, 751, 796, 814, 847, 876, 932-33, 939-40.

Raymond, Henry J.: 178, 454.

Reading, Pennsylvania (Poe's lecture on “American Poetry”): 638-39, 658, 685-86, 688-90.

Reid, Mayne: 638, 863-64, 875-81.

Residences (Poe's): his Arch Street boarding house, 13, 825-28; leaves for “a small house,” 24-27; grassplot in front, 119-20; leaves “the old place,” 381-82; moves to Coates Street in Fairmount district, 435-36; Thomas’ description of Fairmount residence, 442; moves to 234 North Seventh Street in Spring Garden district, 571-73; reminiscences of Spring Garden home, 703, 837, 875-81, 933-34; Spring Garden neighbors, 703-04, 705-06, 707, 769, 773, 796-97, 863, 927-28, 933-34; Fairmount neighbors, 718, 742-43; Griswold's description of Poe home, 736; English and Mary Starr give similar descriptions of Poe's “small house,” 902-03.

Rex, Katharine: see Katharine Rex Burgin.

Reynolds, Jeremiah N.: 882.

Richmond: Poe's departure from, 5-7; Poe plans to visit (August 26, 1843), 618.

Riebsam, W. D.: 499, 882-83.

Roberts, George: 213-14, 312, 316, 390-92.

Roberts, Jonathan: 366-67, 371, 375, 388-89, 435.

Rogers, Mary: 250, 390-92, 463, 468-70, 473-74, 904.

Rosenbach, Hyman Polock: 890, 894, 925.

Royster, Elmira: 942-43.

Sailer, Joseph: 494, 883.

Sanders, J. Milton: 53.

Sanderson, John: 883.

Saratoga Springs, New York: Poe's reputed visits to, 707-11, 778-79, 856-57.

Sargent, Epes: 173, 305-06, 434, 569-70, 884.

Sartain, John: 38, 42, 115, 171, 176, 180, 229, 251, 298, 300, 607, 806-07, 884-86.

Sartain, William: 885-86.

Saturday Courier (Philadelphia): circulation, 81; a family newspaper, 82.

Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia): publishes Wilmer's “Ode to Poe,” 17-20; Graham becomes editor, 33-34; purchased by Graham and Du Solle, 81-82; a family newspaper, 82, 116; Peterson acquires “third interest,” 116; publishes Poe's Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, 142-44; Peterson's duties on, 263-64; absorbs Saturday Chronicle and United States, 451-52; claims circulation “over 100,000,” 452; Horatio Hastings Weld joins staff, 460-61; Samuel D. Patterson acquires proprietary interest — Peterson retires, 515-16; satirized in Lippard's “Spermaceti Papers,” 555-57, 559-60; scoffs at Hirst and Lippard, 582; publishes “The Black Cat,” 617; Poe paid twenty dollars for story, 618.

Saturday Museum (Philadelphia): a family newspaper, 82; T. C. Clarke issues first number (December 10, 1842), 481-82; Poe's review of Lowell's Pioneer, 488-89; biography of Poe to be included in series on “Poets and Poetry of Philadelphia,” 489-90, 498, 500-02; publishes Hirst's vitriolic critique of Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, 495-99, 501, 503-04; Charles Fenno Hoffman reacts to Museum's attack on Griswold, 504-05; Clarke's description of series on Philadelphia poets, 506-08; publishes Poe biography (February 25, 1843), 508-10; Poe biography reprinted in March 4, 1843, issue, 516-17; extant copies of Museum, 516-17; Clarke announces Poe as “assistant Editor,” 517-19; carries Poe's Prospectus for The Stylus, 519-22; Hirst satirizes Griswold as “Mr. Driswold,” 522; English is principal contributor, 523; John Kirk Townsend is featured contributor, 523-24, 527-28, 538-39; Lippard announced as contributor, 537-38; Clarke acquires new business partner, 538; “Extra No. 1,” 538-39; publishes Poe's “Original Conundrums,” 540-41; reprints Poe's “Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,” 546; advertised as “largest and best printed Family Newspaper,” 551-52; English's Doom of the Drinker commissioned for Museum, 560-62; its rivalry with Dollar Newspaper, 593-94, 657-58, 666; Clarke acquires third business partner, 624-25; the Museum's financial difficulties, 625-27; Mayne Reid becomes frequent contributor, 638; Clarke resigns editorship, 672, 680; English's “Stealing from Abroad” causes controversy, 676-78, 680. See also Thomas C. Clarke and Thomas Dunn English (The Doom of the Drinker).

Scott, Andrew: 122, 161, 886, 891-92.

Scott, John R.: 886-87, 890.

Scott, William: 7.

“The Scythe of Time” (“A Predicament”): 22, 30.

“Secret Writing”: 207, 213, 240, 246-47, 251, 270, 301. See also “Cryptography.”

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria: 616-17, 887.

“Shadow, A Fable”: 101.

Sherburne, Miss: 583-84, 595-97, 603-04, 608.

Shew, Marie Louise: 820.

Sigourney, Lydia H.: 285-87, 485, 550-51, 887-88.

“Silence, A Fable” (“Siope”): 8, 107.

“Silence — A Sonnet”: 102, 109.

Simms, William Gilmore: 173, 423-24, 514-15, 558, 584-86, 888, 918.

“Siope — A Fable” (“Silence”): 8, 107.

“The Sleeper”: 661.

Slidell, Alexander: 888-89.

Sloanaker, William: 564.

Smith, A. C.: 695, 889.

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes: 895.

Smith, Horace Wemyss: 889-94, 925.

Smith, Richard Penn: 51, 53, 889-92, 894-95.

Smith, Seba: 747, 895.

Smith, Thomas S.: 335, 367, 428, 434-36, 438-39, 452-53, 456, 465, 467, 470, 471-72, 498, 500, 505, 511-12, 516, 531, 896.

Snodgrass, Joseph Evans: edits the American Museum, 22-23, 29; asked to write critique of Poe, 64-65, 76, 80, 82-84; sent copy of Poe's Tales, 95; requests information on premium contest held by Burton's, 97, 99; his animosity toward N. C. Brooks, 110, 549-50, 676; asks Poe to return manuscript submitted in premium contest, 147-49, 189-91; inquires about Penn Magazine, 189-91; has heard Burton's rumors about Poe's intemperance, 199, 207-10; praises “A Descent into the Maelström,” 245-46; explains dual publication of his “Reproof of a Bird,” 260-61, 264-65; edits Baltimore Saturday Visiter, 284; praises “Autography” in the Visiter, 298; criticizes Tomlin's vanity, 302-03; comments on Poe's literary criticism in the Visiter, 307-08, 323, 360; criticizes Thomas, 318-19; reprints Poe's “Mask of the Red Death,” 368; offered “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” for the Visiter, 390-93; reacts to Poe's departure from Graham's, 422; active in temperance movement, 430; comments on Poe's critique of Rufus Dawes, 448; praises “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” 499-500; notices The Stylus, 529; reviews Wilmer's “Recantation,” 549-50; notices “The Gold-Bug,” 592-93; reprints Poe biography from Saturday Museum, 609; notices Poe's Prose Romances, 613; makes Baltimore Saturday Visiter into forum for debate on slavery, 635; reviews Thomas’ lecture on “eloquence,” 646-47; suspects Poe has returned to Graham's, 673; reviews Poe's lecture on “American Poetry,” 676; directory entry, 896-99.

Snowden, William W.: 297, 314, 389, 431, 694, 899.

“Some Words with a Mummy”: 711-12, 727.

Soran, Charles: 208, 210, 246, 360, 899-900.

Southern Literary Messenger: Poe dismissed from, 3-5; death of its proprietor, Thomas Willis White, 494; Poe seeks to acquire subscription list for his Stylus, 539, 545-46, 548-49; sold to Benjamin Blake Minor, 608.

Sparks, Jared: 900.

Spear, Thomas G.: 321-22, 496-97, 901.

“The Spectacles”: 691-92.

The Spirit of the Times (Philadelphia): edited by Du Solle, 13-14; weekly edition of, 59; Lippard's association with, 308, 324-26, 360-61; location of office, 325; provides source material for Poe, 357, 384, 564-66; Poe mentions reading, 443, 696; extant files of, 751; Poe said to visit newspaper office, 834, 936. See also John S. Du Solle and George Lippard.

Sprague, Charles: 225, 253, 665, 901.

Spring Garden district: see “Residences (Poe's).”

Stanton and Butler (Baltimore): 808-09.

Starr, Mary: 401, 901-04, 906.

Stedman, Elizabeth Clementine: 904-05.

Steele, Silas S.: 613-14, 905.

Stephens, Ann S.: 287, 300, 434, 490-91, 505, 550-51, 905-06.

Stephens, John L.: 10-12, 219, 253.

Stockton, Thomas H.: 496, 507-08, 906.

Stoddard, Richard H.: 166, 172, 906.

Stone, William Leete: 8, 173, 907.

Story, Joseph: 907-08.

Story, William Wetmore: 310, 333, 503.

Street, Alfred Billings: 908.

Sturdivant, John: 126, 174-75, 834, 908.

The Stylus­: Poe reaches agreement with T. C. Clarke to begin magazine, 482, 499; Felix O. C. Darley to furnish illustrations, 499; Poe discusses agreement with Clarke, 510-12; Saturday Museum carries Poe's Prospectus, 519-22; Snodgrass notices project, 529; Poe solicits subscriptions in Washington, 529-30, 536-37; Poe's intemperance in Washington harms chances of issuing Stylus, 531-35; Poe seeks to acquire subscription list of Southern Literary Messenger, 539, 545-46, 548-49; Poe enlists Lowell and Hawthorne as contributors, 542-43, 547-48, 552; Lowell forwards a poem, 553; W. G. Simms notices The Stylus, 558; T. C. Clarke withdraws from project, 558-59; Poe hopes to resume project “next year,” 572-73; Tomlin's activities in project's behalf, 584; Poe proposes monthly magazine controlled by elite of American literati, 694.

“A Succession of Sundays” (“Three Sundays in a Week”): 275, 299, 832.

Sully, Thomas: 805-07, 884, 909.

Sutherland, Joel B.: 672, 909-10.

“A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”: 695.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque: to include supplement of criticism, 60-61, 77-78, 83, 107; size of first edition, 73-74; a few copies “on fine paper,” 79; advance notice of, 80-81; Lea & Blanchard decline to purchase copyright of, 84-85; publication, 89-90; reasons for poor sale, 90-91; reception, 92-108; Poe believes edition has been exhausted, 99, 149; Lea & Blanchard decline to issue enlarged edition, 252-54; Poe sends copy to Dickens, 340-41; Dickens to seek British publisher for revised edition, 342-43, 394; Poe fails to find New York publisher for revised edition, 400-01; Dickens fails to find British publisher, 467-68, 476-78; mentioned, 165, 716, 833.

Talfourd, Thomas Noon: 275-76, 287.

Tasistro, Louis Fitzgerald: 8, 105, 910.

Taylor, Franck: 225-26, 292-93

“The Tell-Tale Heart”: 473, 479, 482-84, 488, 492, 493-94, 495, 503.

Tennyson, Alfred: 111-13, 412-13, 661, 693, 919.

Thomas, Ann Fonerden: 222, 911-13.

Thomas, Calvin W.: 912.

Thomas, Ebenezer Smith: 124, 131-32, 910-13.

Thomas, Frances Ann: 175, 179-80, 258, 293, 315, 912.

Thomas, Frederick William: meets Poe, 125-26; introduced to Dow, 126-27; noticed by Poe, 127-29; addresses Whig rally, 130-31; noticed by Saturday Courier, 134; his Howard Pinckney in the press, 138-39; described as Poe's “friend Thomas,” 139; publication of Howard Pinckney, 163-64; writes Poe from Saint Louis, 172; Poe's opinion of Howard Pinckney, 173-75; aids the Penn Magazine, 179-80; arrives in Washington, 198-99; asked to evaluate “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” 212, 220-22; lectures in Washington, 214, 220-21; in need of money, 220-23; suggests Poe seek Washington clerkship, 223-24; unable to cash Graham's draft, 225-27; to furnish biographies for Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, 230-31, 249-50; evaluates “A Descent into the Maelström,” 231-33; obtains office in Washington, 237-40; suggests that Kennedy could help Poe obtain appointment, 240-42; acknowledges Poe's solution of Frailey cipher, 242-43; attempts to produce Washington clerkship for Poe, 244-45, 248, 256-57; advocacy of international copyright, 249-50; wishes to publish song, 256-57, 265-67; sends biographical data to Poe, 258-59; growing intimacy with President Tyler and his family, 265-67; George Willig to publish Thomas’ song, 267-69, 271; suggests that Abel P. Upshur could help Poe obtain appointment, 271; Willig to forward copies of song, 273-75; sends Poe a letter from H. M. Brackenridge, 281-85; makes “conversational capital” out of Poe, 284-85; asks Poe's advice on study of French, 290-93; “Oh Blame Her Not,” 305; regrets that he has not been able to visit Poe, 314-15; criticized by Snodgrass, 318-19; asked to enlist Robert Tyler's support for Poe's magazine, 320-22, 337-38, 352; lectures on copyright, 367; informs Poe of Robert Tyler's offer of a position in the Philadelphia Custom House, 379-80, 382-83; delivers Independence Day address, 407; his continuing efforts to secure position in Custom House for Poe, 428-31, 436; relegated to appendix of Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, 436-38; visits Poe in Philadelphia (ante September 17-September 18, 1842), 440-44; sends Poe “new hope” of appointment to Custom House, 464, 471-72; Poe asks Thomas to write his biography for Saturday Museum, 489-90, 498-99, 500-02; mentioned in Hirst's vitriolic critique of Griswold's Poets, 496-97, 498-99, 501; approves of Poe's plan to visit Washington in search of Custom House appointment, 498, 500-02; Poe forwards Saturday Museum biography, 510-12; bedridden when Poe arrives in Washington, 525-27; Poe's petulance toward, 530-31; Poe apologizes for conduct during Washington visit, 534-37; evaluates Poe's standing with President Tyler and his sons, 541-42; lectures in Baltimore, 646-47; analysis of Poe's drinking, 759; directory entry, 913-17.

Thomas, Isabella (Belle): 258, 912.

Thomas, Jackson (?): 258.

Thomas, Lewis F.: 258, 912.

Thomas, Martha: 258, 912.

Thomas, Mary: 912.

Thomas, Susan: 258, 912.

Thomson, Charles West: 149-50, 217, 496, 725, 917-18.

“Three Sundays in a Week” (“A Succession of Sundays”): 275, 299, 832.

“To Helen”: 258.

“To Ianthe in Heaven” (“To One in Paradise”): 49, 51, 855.

Tomlin, John: 78-79, 161-62, 173, 185, 200, 213-15, 275-76, 302-03, 304-05, 349-50, 444, 449-51, 460-61, 514-15, 553-55, 573, 584-86, 615, 619-20, 623, 681-82, 918-20.

Townsend, John Kirk: 41, 523-24, 527-28, 538-39, 920.

Travers, Robert: 672, 909.

Tucker, Beverley: 5, 6, 68, 71-72, 271, 287, 920-21.

Tuckerman, Henry T.: 173, 412, 432, 482, 484, 486, 921.

Tutt, Elizabeth R.: see Elizabeth Rebecca Herring.

Tyler, President John: 89, 178, 198, 201, 213, 214-15, 224, 238-39, 240-41, 244, 248, 254, 256-57, 262-63, 266-67, 271, 335-36, 363-64, 366-67, 371, 373-75, 380-81, 388-89, 393, 407, 428, 429-30, 435, 439, 446, 455-58, 461-64, 466-67, 471-72, 512, 516, 526, 529, 532, 541-42, 586, 921-23. See also “Custom House.”

Tyler, John (President's second son): 541-42.

Tyler, Robert: 238-39, 244-45, 266-67, 321-22, 337, 379-80, 382, 387, 403-04, 429-30, 441, 471-72, 496, 498, 501, 511, 525-27, 530, 536, 541-42, 544-45, 586, 923-24.

Tyler, W. B.: 283, 289, 301, 309.

Tyson, Joseph Washington: 374, 407, 429-30, 455-58, 461-66, 924.

Upshur, Abel Parker: 271, 274, 349, 511-12, 530, 924-25.

Upton, John: 892, 925-26.

Van Buren, Martin: 30, 46, 56, 123-24, 130, 152, 178, 182, 215, 222, 239, 524.

Vansyckel, Elijah: 926-27.

Verplanck, Gulian C.: 927.

“Von Jung, the Mystic” (“Mystification”): 10.

Wagner, Philip: 927-28.

Waldie, Adam: 890, 928.

Wallace, Horace Binney (“William Landor”): 243-44, 693-94, 928-29.

Wallace, William Ross: 197, 227, 333, 400, 417-18, 429, 929-30

Walsh, Robert: 930-31, 945.

Ward, Thomas (“Flaccus”): 512-14, 651.

Ware, Henry, Jr.: 931

Washington: Thomas suggests Poe seek clerkship in, 224; Poe lacks money to visit (July 4, 1841), 241-42; Poe plans to visit in search of Custom House appointment, 498, 500-02; Poe's visit to (March 8-15, 1843), 524-37, 541-42, 719, 805.

Waterman, Catherine H. (Mrs. Esling): 197, 496, 725, 931-32.

Webster, Daniel: 89, 262, 266, 925.

Weiss, Susan Archer: 824-25, 932-34.

Welby, Amelia: 229-30, 249-50, 267-68, 436-37, 496-97.

Weld, Horatio Hastings: 253-54, 460-61, 491, 934.

Wemyss, Francis C.: 890-91, 934-35.

Westcott, Thompson: 325-26, 935-38.

Wetherald, Esther: 330, 352.

Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery: 938.

Whackemwell, Timotheus (pseudonym): 251-52, 270.

Whipple, Edwin P.: 261, 315-16.

Whitaker, Epher: 655, 939.

Whitaker, Samuel Adams: 939-40.

White, Thomas Willis: 1-7, 15, 63, 66-67, 156, 284-85, 287, 338, 349, 353, 383, 444, 494, 514-15, 539, 545, 548-49, 940-41.

Whitelock, William: 953-54.

Whitman, Sarah Helen: 956.

Whittier, John Greenleaf: 253, 941.

“Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling”: 107.

Wilde, Richard Henry: 197, 941-42.

“William Wilson”: 42, 72, 74, 77-78, 96, 100-01, 369, 834.

Williams, Samuel: 658, 685-86, 688.

Willig, George: 267-68, 271, 273-74, 283-84, 290, 292, 305.

Willis, Nathaniel P.: 20, 31, 49, 50, 54, 56, 68, 71-72, 77, 102, 233-34, 246, 285-86, 287, 299, 396, 412, 491-92, 557, 581, 622, 654-58, 666, 679, 693, 735, 782, 942, 951.

Wilmer, Lambert A.: receives Poe's invitation to edit the Southern Literary Messenger, 5-6; his “Ode to Poe,” 17-20; moves to Philadelphia, 32-33; Poe praises The Quacks of Helicon, 245-46, 251, 267; plans to issue magazine, 312; Du Solle defends his literary reputation, 335; solicits Tomlin's aid for his magazine, 349-50; Du Solle notices his lectures in Philadelphia and Germantown, 361, 367-68, 375-76; continuing intimacy with Poe, 450-51; to dedicate “Recantation” to Tomlin, 450-51; found innocent of conspiracy, 475-76; becomes proprietor of Evening Express, 476, 481; joins Evening Mercury, 481; publication of “Recantation,” 515; Snodgrass reviews “Recantation,” 549-50; discusses Poe's intemperance in May 20, 1843, letter to Tomlin, 553-55; Tomlin describes Wilmer's letter in letter to Poe, 585-86; said to have aimed “innuendoes” at Poe, 591-92; Poe asks Tomlin to send him Wilmer's letter, 619-20, 623; Tomlin hopes that Wilmer will “Sin no more,” 681-82; directory entry, 942-44.

Wilmer, Margaret E.: 944.

Wilmington, Delaware (Poe's lecture on “American Poetry”): 647-48.

Wilson, John: 65.

Wirt, William: 944-45.

Wise, Henry A.: 457-58, 461-66.

Wise, John: 564-66, 853, 945-46.

Wood, William B.: 186-87, 890-91, 946.

Woodberry, George E.: 946.

Woods, Matthew: 947.

Woodward, R. Jones: 179-80, 199.

Wyatt, Thomas: 24-25, 26, 41-42, 49, 205, 210-12, 506, 511-12, 947-56.

Young, McClintock: 256-57.

Zieber, George B.: 271-72, 458, 483.