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Poe and The Southern Literary Messenger, (1934), title page and table of contents


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Title page:

 

POE

AND

The Southern Literary Messenger

 

BY

DAVID K. JACKSON

 

WITH A FOREWORD BY

J. H. WHITTY

 

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RICHMOND, VA.:

PRESS OF THE DIETZ PRINTING CO.

Publishers

1934

 

 



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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

                             [[PAGE]]
FOREWORD    v
PREFACE    xi
CHAPTER I, Edgar Allan Poe, October 12, 1833-January 3, 1837    1
CHAPTER II, The Messenger, August, 1834-July, 1835    16
CHAPTER III, Poe's Editorial Policy and Contributions to the Messenger    58
CHAPTER IV, Conclusion    82
APPENDIX A, A Selected List of Poe's Contributions to the Messenger in 1835, 1836, and 1837    91
APPENDIX B, Letters of T. W. White to Lucian Minor    93
APPENDIX C, Letters of T. W. White to Beverley Tucker and John M. Speed    108
BIBLIOGRAPHY    118

 



List of Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS

                             [[PAGE]]
[[Silhouette of Poe, from front cover]]     
Edgar Allan Poe, from a Pratt daguerretype [[daguerreotype]] taken at Richmond, Va., Frontispiece     
The Southern Literary Messenger office and Ellis and Allan General Store Building, Fifteenth Street at Main, Richmond, Va.    88
Poe's desk used at The Southern Literary Messenger office    88

 


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Notes:

All material in this edition is protected by copyright, exclusively held by the estate of the author, David K. Jackson. Permission has been obtained by the Poe Society of Baltimore from the author's estate to provide this electronic edition for academic and research purposes only. The Poe Society of Baltimore asks all users of this material to respect these copyrights, and not to exceed what would typically be considered as fair use (generally interpreted as selective quotations and/or paraphrasing of only a small percentage of the total material, and with the appropriate attribution and citation).

Most copies of the book were signed by David K. Jackson and J. H. Whitty. Here are the signatures from one such copy:

D. J. Jackson and J. H. Whitty signatures

A note on the copyright page states that:

Of this edition 500 copies have been printed, of which only 325 copies are for general circulation.

The dedication page reads:

TO THE
MEMORY OF MY FATHER

The father of David Kelly Jackson was also named David Kelly Jackson (1882-1932), but as he was deceased by 1934, Jackson was not using the designation of “Jr.”

 

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