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McCabe, John Collins: xxxii, 192, 242
MacDonald, Miss H. B.: 668-69
McFarlane, William: 207
McIntosh, Maria Jane: xxxiii, 735, 739, 743, 754-55
McJilton, John N.: xxxiii, 162, 170, 215, 323, 337-38, 355, 362-63
McMakin, Andrew: xxix, 441, 718, 725
McMichael, Morton: xxxiii, 121, 124, 263, 285, 437
McMurtrie, Henry: 688
Macaulay, Thomas Babington: 327, 545, 575
Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell: 191, 203, 208, 213, 221, 223, 231
Mackenzie family of Richmond: xxxiii, xxxix, 94-95, 401, 749-50, 822, 828, 830; Poe's visits to “Duncan Lodge,” 750, 822, 828
Mackenzie, Miss Jane: xxxiii, xxxix, 54, 77, 308
Mackenzie, Jane Scott (Mrs. William Mackenzie): xxxiii, 14, 26, 44
Mackenzie, John Hamilton: xxxiii, xxxix, 83, 87, 220, 322, 401, 749
Mackenzie, Thomas Gilliat: xxxiii, 401, 411
Mackenzie, William: xxxiii, 14, 43-44, 62, 94-95, 401
Mackenzie, William Leslie: xxxiii, 401
Madisonian (New York): 287
“Maelzel's Chess-Player”: 199, 205, 215-17
Magasin pittoresque (Paris): 556, 564
“Magazine-Writing — Peter Snook”: 230, 537, 544, 550
Magnolia (Charleston, South Carolina): xlii, 402, 413-14, 422
Magruder, Allan B.: 107, 117, 236, 239
Maine Farmer (Augusta, Maine): 754
Manufacturers and Farmers Journal (Providence): 777
“Marginalia”: 476, 478, 506, 556, 567, 627, 632, 651, 668, 671, 715, 719, 727, 786, 788-89, 798-99, 801, 808, 812, 831
“Marginal Notes”: see “Marginalia”
Marryat, Frederick: 242, 257, 263, 280, 319, 339
Marshall, Charles H.: 733
Marshall, John: 72, 140, 147, 155, 157, 159, 162, 191, 195, 199
Martin, J. J.: 681
Martin, John: 285
Martinsburg Gazette (Virginia, later West Virginia): 162, 233
Matchett, R. J.: xlix
Mathews, Cornelius: xxxiii; Poe condemns Wakondah, 359-60; 364; Poe on Puffer Hopkins, 394; Poe apologizes for Wakondah review, 454-55; 517, 542, 551-52, 558, 566; Poe favorably notices Big Abel and the Little Manhattan, 571, 580, 585, and defends it against L. G. Clark's attack, 587, 589-90, 598; 635, 649, 686, 692-94, 701, 708, 715
Mattson, Morris (pseudonym?): Poe's review of Paul Ulric, 191, 193, 197, 200, 202-04, 223, 232-33
Maubey, Jerome A.: 637
Maury, Matthew Fontaine: xviii
Maxwell, Mrs. Susan: 834
May, Caroline: 771
May-Flower (Boston): Poe's contribution, 559-60, 571
Mayo, Colonel and Mrs. John: xix, 106
Meek, Alexander Beaufort: 414, 434-35
Mellen, Grenville: 208, 211, 231
Mercantile Journal (Boston): 204, 581
Merchants’ Magazine of Freeman Hunt (New York): 522-23, 555-56, 559, 587, 612, 747, 774
“Mesmeric Revelation”: 463, 467-70, 485-86, 506, 533, 535, 540, 550, 552, 556, 558, 566-68, 570, 572-74, 587, 596, 616, 619, 621, 624, 631, 633, 722, 727, 744
mesmerism: 468, 498, 523, 605, 607. See also “Mesmeric Revelation” and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
Messenger (Richmond): see Southern Literary Messenger
Methodist Conference Sentinel: 216
Metropolitan (New York): see American Metropolitan Magazine
Metropolitan Magazine (London): 258
“Metzengerstein”: 125, 185, 279
Meunier, Isabelle: 683, 685, 702, 705, 734, 738
Miller, Dr. James H.: xxxiii, 119, 129-30, 132-33, 135, 163, 167-69
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John C.: 625-26
Miller, Miss Sarah E.: 625-26
Millington, John N.: 628
Milton, John: 564, 571, 827, 841; Paradise Lost, 172, 214, 579, 731, 836
Miner's Journal (Pottsville, Pennsylvania): xvii, 716, 754-55, 761
Minor, Benjamin Blake: xxxiii, 241; Poe sends Minor revised “Raven,” 497, 508; notices Messenger in Broadway Journal, 520-22, 524-25, and contributes two reviews to it, 523-25, 530
Minor, Lucian: xxxiii; declines Messenger editorship, 147-48; 149-51, 165, 167, 170-71, 174; writes publisher's notice for T. W. White, 176-79; 185, 190-91; reception of his “Liberian literature,” 190, 193-95; 240, 306
Missionary Memorial (New York): Poe's contribution, 585
Mitchell, Donald Grant: 484
Mitchell, Dr. John Kearsley: xxxiv, 290, 313, 538
Mitchell, Silas Weir: xxxiv, 313
“Moldavia” (the Allan house): xv, xviii, 64-65
Monthly Review (London): 258
Moore, John W.: 811
Moore, Robert G.: 189
Moore, Thomas: 160, 285, 836, 841
Moran, Dr. John J.: 845-47
“Morella”: manuscript of, 126; publication, 151; 156-57, 160, 173, 182-83, 186; Poe compares “Morella” with “Ligeia,” 271; reprinted in Burton's, 274-75; 278, 284, 540
Morning Chronicle (Baltimore): 127
Morning Courier (New Haven, Connecticut): 555
Morning Courier (New York): xlvii, 120-21, 174, 180, 185-86, 214-15, 220, 249, 387, 593, 673, 717, 724
Morning Express (New York): xviii, 499, 508, 672-76, 686, 689, 719-23, 726-27, 742-43, 780; Evening Express, 672, 675, 686, 719-21, 723, 743; Semi-Weekly Express, 672, 686, 719, 721, 723
Morning News (New York): 487, 489-92, 494, 498, 507, 509, 524, 530, 543, 553-54, 587, 589, 603, 637, 648, 653-54, 657; Weekly News, 491, 494, 498, 520, 524, 530, 543, 554
“Morning on the Wissahiccon”: see “The Elk”
Morning Post (Boston): 282, 369, 548, 599-600, 613, 618, 624
Morning Post (London): 615, 617, 677
Morning Telegraph (New York): 647-48, 656, 658, 689
Morrell, Charles R.: 265, 295-96
Morris, George P.: xxxiv, 119, 217, 244, 278, 313, 410, 436, 471, 473, 505, 512, 592, 596, 607, 624, 643, 646, 649, 658, 665-66, 670, 686, 696, 726, 730, 835
Morris, John B.: 438
Morris, Robert: xxxiv, 345, 414, 416, 425-26, 430, 441, 443, 447-48, 503
Mosher, Edward: 94-96
Mott, Dr. Valentine: xxxiv, 245, 694
Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich de la: Poe comments on Undine, 267, 478
Mowatt, Anna Cora: xxxiv; Poe's review of Fashion, 519, 521-23; 552, 554, 558, 641
“MS. Found in a Bottle”: selected as prize tale for Saturday Visiter, 130, 132-35; reprinted in Gift, 152, 168; 169, 171, 175-76; reprinted in Messenger, 179, 182-84, 186; 279, 281, 284-86, 575, 660
Muhlenberg, William Augustus: xxxiv, 711
Munroe, Isaac: 451
Myers, John C., et al: 444, 453-54
“Mystification” (originally “Von Jung, the Mystific”): 197, 245, 279, 607
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Napier, William Francis: 344
Nash, Herbert M.: 834
Nassau Monthly (Princeton College): 602-03
Natchez Christian Herald (Mississippi): 201
Natchez Courier (Mississippi): 204, 232-33
National Archives (Ithaca, New York): 516, 518, 529
National Forum (Philadelphia): see Daily Forum
National Gazette (Philadelphia): 163
National Intelligencer (Washington): xxxv, xliii, 85, 139, 145, 163, 170, 173, 176, 186, 191, 203, 210, 231, 444, 565-66, 694, 850
National Press (New York): see Home Journal
Native American (Philadelphia): 460
Naval and Military Gazette (London): 257
Neal, John: xxxiv, 97-101, 103-04, 116, 121, 167, 173, 201, 269, 298, 300, 394, 397, 626, 637, 670, 717
Neal, Joseph C.: xxxiv, 263, 267-68, 279-80, 570, 573, 653
“Never Bet the Devil Your Head” (originally “Never Bet Your Head”): 339-42, 563
Newark, Delaware: Poe's lecture at Newark Academy, 444, 446-47
Newbern Spectator (New Bern, North Carolina): 189, 197-99; attacks Poe's criticism in Messenger, 212, 214; calls for his resignation, 219; 220, 223-24, 226-27, 229, 234-35; condemns “the frothy part” of Messenger, 236; 239-40; comments on Poe's departure, 242-43
New Church Repository (New York): 747-48
New-England Galaxy (Boston): 167, 173, 201, 216, 233
New-England Magazine (Boston): 129
New-England Palladium (Boston): 4-5, 83-84
New England Washingtonian (Boston): 590
New England Weekly Gazette (Hartford, Connecticut): 772
New Era (New York): 250
New Hampshire Patriot: 217
New Mirror (New York): xxxiv, 410, 436, 462-63, 466, 471, 474. See also Evening Mirror
New Monthly Magazine (London): 150, 258
New World (New York): xvii, xxiii, 344, 347, 368, 384, 450, 468-69, 474, 498; publishes Poe's revised “Ligeia,” 502-03; 505-07, 514, 527-28, 548, 718, 723-24, 726
New York, city of: Poe's arrival from West Point, 114-16, and his 1831 Poems, 116-17; his 1837 sojourn, 242-45; Poe and other literati attend Booksellers Dinner, 243-44; Poe's June 1842 visit, 370-72, 374-75, 377, 380-81, 383; Poe settles in city, 456; stops at 130 Greenwich Street, 456-57; moves to Brennan farmhouse on Eighty-fourth Street, 463-64; visits Blackwell's Island (later Roosevelt Island), 464; works in Evening Mirror office, 473; moves back to Greenwich Street (No. 154), 494; lectures at Society Library, 506-08; meets Mrs. Osgood at Astor House, 511-12; resides at 195 East Broadway, 530, 538, 545, 553, 560, and at 85 Amity Street, 572-73, 589, 621-22, 624-25; brief residence at Turtle Bay, on East River, 625-26; Poe visits Mrs. Shew's home at 47 Bond Street, 698; lectures on “The Universe” at Society Library, 717-20. See also Brooklyn and Fordham
New York American: 220-21, 243-44, 249, 284, 458
New York Courier and Enquirer: see Morning Courier
New York Cynosure: 429, 431-32
New-York Daily Advertiser: 45
New-Yorker (Horace Greeley's): 184, 188, 204, 216, 222, 235, 244, 250, 321
New-York Evangelist: 595-96
New York Gazette: 249-50
New York Herald: 421, 423, 426, 460, 508, 512-13, 526, 539, 545, 685, 849-50, 852
New York Illustrated Magazine: 576, 602, 685
New-York Mirror: xxiv, xxxiv, 119-20, 162, 164, 167, 175, 197, 203, 207, 213, 216-17, 220, 223, 229, 252, 258-59, 284, 287, 356, 376. See also New Mirror
New York Review: xxvii, 237, 255-56; Poe's contribution, 244-45
New York Transcript: 167, 214, 220-21
New York Weekly Messenger: 207-08, 217, 219-20, 233
Nichols, Mary Gove: see Mary Neal Gove
Nichols, Mrs. Rebecca S. Reed: 464
Nichols, Thomas Low: xxvi
Nimmo, Margaret Keeling: see Margaret Ellis
Noah, Mordecai M.: xxxiv, 146, 184, 211, 252, 269, 324, 458, 581-82, 586, 688-89
“Nobody, Nemo” (pseudonym): 8
Norfolk, Virginia: Poe's mother performs in, 10-11; Poe stationed at Fortress Monroe on Old Point Comfort, 87-91; Poe's September 1849 visit, 832-36, 838
Norfolk Beacon: see American Beacon
Norfolk Herald: 11, 186, 200-01, 207, 215, 217
North American (Baltimore): xxxviii, 80-85; Poe poems published over Henry Poe's initials, 82-83
North American (Philadelphia): 280, 300, 347, 385-86, 595, 750
North American Review (Boston): 83, 151, 179, 187, 225, 665, 669, 799, 836
Northrop, Lucius Bellinger: 115
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“Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores!” (attributed to Poe): 63
Okie, Dr. A. H.: 766
“Omniana”: 293-94, 302, 304-05
O’Neil, Augustine: 679
Opal (New York): Poe's contributions, 440, 463-65, 476; his correspondence about 1846 edition, 535, 537; 607
opium: Poe suspected of addiction to, ix, 150, 550, 555, 716, 739; his consumption of laudanum, 765, 769
Oquawka Spectator (Oquawka, Illinois): xxxv, 752, 754, 777, 788, 803, 823-24, 832, 834
“Original Conundrums”: 407-08, 410
Osborn, Laughton: xxxiv-xxxv; Poe's review of Confessions of a Poet, 151-55; his condemnation of The Vision of Rubeta, 517, and Osborn's reaction, 561-63; 573, 589, 641
Osgood, Mrs. Frances S.: xxxv; Poe praises her in New York lecture, 509-10, and is introduced to her, 511-13, 518; her pseudonyms, 522; she addresses Poe in “So Let It Be,” 523-24; 525; Poe's “Impromptu” addressed to her, 528; 534, 539-40; he follows her to Providence, 544-46; 547, 553; her “Ida Grey,” 556; 565; she addresses him in “Echo-Song,” 569-70; 573, 585, 593; her salutation to him as “Israfel,” 597; Poe lauds her Poems in Broadway Journal, 603; 604-06, 616, 620; Mrs. Ellet intervenes in her correspondence with Poe, 622-24; Poe composes “A Valentine” (February 1846 acrostic) for Mrs. Osgood, 624-26; he praises her poetry in Godey's, 627; 634, 637, 639-40; Mrs. Osgood protests rumors spread by Mrs. Ellet, 647, 651-52; included in Poe's “Literati,” 662; 670, 673-74, 687; E. J. Thomas writes her about Poe's libel suit, 696; 700, 725, 727, 729-30, 741, 762; Mrs. Osgood visits Mrs. Whitman, 773-74; possibly addresses “Lines” to Poe in Metropolitan, 774, 781; neglects to answer Mrs. Whitman's inquiries about him, 784-85; mentions him in A Letter About the Lions, 785; 788, 791, 796; Poe notices Mrs. Osgood in Messenger, 821, 824-25
Osgood, Samuel S.: xxxv, 545, 608, 687
O’Sullivan, John L.: xxxv, 260, 375, 379, 495, 587
Otis, James Frederick: xxxv, 191, 203, 208, 210-11
“Our Amateur Poets”: 398, 401, 431-32, 434-35
“Our Contributors” series (Graham's Magazine): 430, 436, 446, 454, 456, 462, 490, 533
“Our Magazine Literature” (not by Poe): xvii
“Outis” (pseudonym): his letter to Evening Mirror, 510-11, and Poe's “Reply,” 514, 516-18, 520, 522-23
Oxford Examiner (North Carolina): 217
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Pabodie, William J.: xxxv, 746, 756, 766, 768, 772-73, 775-76, 778-80
Page, William: xvii-xxvii, 411, 500, 521-22, 524, 554-55, 645
painting: Poe's aptitude for, xxvi, 69, 75, 500
Palladium (Boston): see New-England Palladium
“Parnassus”: see “American Parnassus”
Patriot (Providence, Rhode Island): 323
Patterson, Edward H. N.: xxxv-xxxvi, 777, 783, 800-01, 803-06, 808-09, 819, 823-24, 827-28, 832, 834
Patterson, Henry S.: 416
Patterson, Louisa Gabriella: see Louisa Allan
Patterson, Samuel D.: xxvii, xxxvi, 402-03, 433-35, 808, 817, 819
Paulding, James Kirke: xxxvi; encourages T. W. White, 140; praises Poe's “Lion-izing,” 159, 162; 164, 169, 171, 175; finds Poe “the best of all our going writers,” 184; submits Poe's tales to Harpers and writes White, 192-93, and Poe, 195; 200, 208-10, 212-14, 229, 231, 239, 244; Poe seeks clerkship from, 248; 330, 401, 431, 570
Paul Ulric: see Morris Mattson
Pease, Peter Pindar: 71-72, 79, 115-16
Pedder, Anna and Bessie: xxxvi, 248, 279
Pedder, James: xxxvi, 245, 248, 279, 282, 294
Penn Magazine (Poe's proposed journal): early plans for quality magazine, 166, 272, 287; Poe prepares prospectus, 297, and sends it to newspapers, 298-303; his “want of capital,” 303; he solicits aid from Georgia relatives and others, 304-07; receives subscriptions from South and West, 307-10, 316; forced to postpone, 311-13; seeks contributors of “caste,” 316-18; first number cancelled because of financial crisis, 318-19, 320, 322-23; Poe hopes G. R. Graham will fund project, 329-32, 340-42, 345; J. E. Dow and F. W. Thomas express support, 346-48; Poe seeks Robert Tyler's aid, 359-60, 365-66; makes “earnest although secret exertions” to resume project, 373-75; Penn announced in New-York Mirror and other papers, 376-77; 380-81; Custom House appointment to give Poe “a certain resource,” 382-83; name changed to Stylus, 398-99. See also Stylus
Pennsylvania Inquirer (Philadelphia): xxxiv, 250, 265, 279, 298, 345, 395, 399, 402, 414, 417, 421, 423, 426, 430, 441, 444, 447-48, 503
Pennsylvanian (Philadelphia): xxxiv, 186, 218, 250, 267-69, 275, 279-80, 283, 321, 384, 399, 402, 427, 431, 434, 440, 448, 812, 851
Pennsylvania Sentinel (Philadelphia): 233
People's Advocate (Newburyport, Massachusetts): 135
Percival, Charles G.: 605, 615
“Perry, Edgar A.” (Poe's Army pseudonym): 80-81, 87, 90
Persico, Genaro: 140, 165, 308
“Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”: 288, 290. See also “The Business Man”
Petersburg Constellation (Virginia): see American Constellation
Petersburg Intelligencer (Virginia): 185
“Peter Snook”: see “Magazine-Writing — Peter Snook”
Peterson, Charles J.: xxxvi, 293, 320-21, 341, 343-45, 351, 355, 359-60, 363, 365, 367-68, 384-85, 388-89, 402, 413, 430-31, 436, 439, 606
Peterson's Magazine (Philadelphia): xxxvi, 355, 436, 788
Petrarch: 339
Petrie, William: 629
Phantasy-Pieces (Poe's proposed collection): 370-71
Philadelphia: Poe's first visit (May 1829), 92-94; Poe settles in city, 248; stops on Arch Street, 248; moves to Sixteenth Street, 255; office of Burton's, 263; Poe remains at same address, 280, 322; Falstaff Hotel, 284; Congress Hall Hotel, 295, 309-11, 380-81; Merchants’ Exchange, 310; offices of Graham's, 323, 355, and Spirit of the Times, 355; United States Hotel, 361-62; Poe moves from “the old place,” 367, and resides on Coates Street, Fairmount, 379-81, 389; rents house on North Seventh Street, above Spring Garden, 409-10, 417-18, 445; Walnut Street Theatre, 433-34; Philadelphia Museum, 447-49; Poe leaves for New York, 456; his July 1847 visit, 703-04, 717; his July 1849 visit, 812-19
Philadelphia Custom House: Poe seeks position in, xliv-xlv, 365-66, 368, 377-87, 396-97, 403-09, 470
Philadelphia Gazette: xx, 197-98, 205, 223, 236, 288-90, 298-99, 304, 448
Philadelphia Saturday Museum: see Saturday Museum
Philadelphia Saturday News: 219
phrenology: Poe reviews Mrs. Miles's Phrenology, 196; his head examined, 342, 345; phrenological descriptions of him by T. D. English, 529, C. F. Briggs, 643, 693, and J. E. Snodgrass, 844
physical appearance, Poe's: “between 130 & 140 pounds,” 69; “5 ft. 8 in.” (Army record), 80; appears “much older” than West Point classmates, 108; “delicate and effeminate” (L. A. Witmer's impression), 125; J. H. B. Latrobe's reminiscence, 133-34; “decidedly handsome,” 242; reminiscences of T. D. English, 263, and F. W. Thomas, 380-81; “a very broad and peculiarly shaped forehead,” 443; Miss Garrigues’ memories, 445; “strikingly intellectual head,” 484; “nervousness of expression,” 494; “inimitable blending of sweetness and hauteur,” 512; Poe's face “well gifted with intellectual beauty,” 529; “The shape of his head was peculiar,” 536; “dressed in black,” 553; reminiscences of T. W. Higginson, 577-78, Walt Whitman, 597, and Parke Godwin, 608; “traces of feminine mental characteristics,” 619; descriptions of Poe by J. M. Field, 651, and W. G. Simms, 655-56; “the air of a finished gentleman,” 679; M. E. Bronson's impressions, 699-700; “his eyes seemed to glow,” 720; reminiscences of J. R. Thompson, 749, and S. H. Heywood, 763; “his face was thin,” 808; reminiscences of H. G. Ashmead, 816, Miss Talley, 818; O. P. Fitzgerald, 821-22, and B. L. Gildersleeve, 822; J. M. Daniel describes Poe in Semi-Weekly Examiner, 826-27; W. W. Valentine detects “great struggle for self control,” 841; distorted accounts of Poe's appearance, 76, 643, 663, 693
Pictorial National Library (Boston): 764
Pinkney, Edward Coote: xxxvi, 79, 328-29, 778, 828, 836
Pioneer (Boston): xix, xxxii, 385, 387-89, 394-98, 401-03, 406-08, 437, 439; Poe's contributions, (January 1843) 394, (February) 396, (March) 401-02
Placide, Alexander: 12-13
Placide and Green Company: 9-13, 16
plagiarism: 108, 166, 168, 170, 200; Poe accuses Longfellow of, 288-90, 328; 335; Poe accused of plagiarizing “The Gold-Bug,” 422-26, 432; Poe's 1845 “War” against Longfellow, James Aldrich, and “Outis,” 486-88, 502-04, 508, 510-11, 514-20, 522-23; Poe suspects J. R. Lowell of plagiarism from Wordsworth, 563-64, and Joseph P. Webster of plagiarism from T. D. English's “Ben Bolt,” 574, 576; Saturday Evening Post accuses Poe of plagiarizing The Conchologist's First Book, 629-30, 633; controversy in Paris over “Rue Morgue” translation, 666-67, 672, 681, 683-84; Poe informed of Post's accusation, 683, and denies it, 688, 691, 695-96; Poe accused of plagiarizing second “To Helen,” 771; 777, 784
Pleasants, Hugh R.: 74, 80, 749
Pleasants, John Hampden: 162, 164, 185
Poe, Amelia Fitzgerald: xxxviii
Poe, Bridges Kennedy: xxxvii, 6, 17
Poe, David, Sr. (Poe's grandfather): xxxvi, 5-7; concern for his grandson Edgar, 19; active in defense of Baltimore, 22; death, 31; Lafayette inquires after, 60-61; 87, 92, 94, 111, 165, 208, 441, 559, 848
Poe, David, Jr. (Poe's father): xxxvi-xxxvii; on Boston stage, 3-5; rebuffed by George Poe, Jr., 5-6; attacked as bad actor, 7-8; last known stage appearance, 8; reported in New York, 9; deserts wife and children, 11, 13; traditions about his death, 15; allusion to his “eccentricity,” 16; Henry Poe unaware of father's fate, 87-88; mentioned by Poe, 165, 183, 441
Poe, Elizabeth (Poe's “Aunt Eliza,” later Mrs. Henry Herring): xxviii, xxxvi, 18-19, 22, 26; death, 52
Poe, Elizabeth Arnold (Poe's mother): xxxvii; theatrical career in Boston and New York, 3-8; performs in Richmond, Norfolk, and Charleston, 9-10; Norfolk Herald reports her misfortunes, 11; final stage appearance, 12; illness and death, 13-16; “Nobody Coming to Marry Me,” 35; 165; discussed by Beverley Tucker and Poe, 182-83
Poe, Elizabeth Cairnes (Poe's grandmother): xxxxi, xxxvi, 5-7, 19; widowed, 31; calls on Lafayette, 61; 67, 88; Poe locates her in Baltimore (1829), 94, 96-97; 118; death, 159; Poe describes her “long & tedious illness,” 165; her will probated, 255
Poe, George (Neilson's brother): xxxvii, 97-98, 126
Poe, George, Sr.: xxxvii
Poe, George, Jr.: xxxvii, 5-6, 188-89, 191-92, 597-98
Poe, Harrier: see Harriet Poe Clemm
Poe, Henry: xxxvii-xxxviii, 6-7, 14; “frequently speaks of his little Brother,” 19; corresponds with Edgar, 61; receives letter from John Allan, 61-62; visits Edgar in Richmond, 65; contributes poems to Saturday Evening Post, 76-77; visits South America, 77; contributes to Baltimore North American, 80-85; writes “Woman” in Margaret Bassett s album, 82; described by F. W. Thomas, 87-88; lives with Mrs. Clemm, 88; “entirely given up to drink,” 97; writes verses in albums, 98, 101; contributes poems to Baltimore Minerva, 101; 106, 115, 118; death, 122; 123, 165, 295, 365
Poe, James Mosher: xxxvii, 17, 29
Poe, Maria: see Maria Clemm
Poe, Neilson: xxxvii-xxxviii, 6, 93, 104, 119, 123, 166, 174, 204, 224, 248, 255, 269, 273, 559, 844-46, 848, 850
Poe, Robert F.: xxxix, 188, 210, 304-06, 316
Poe, Rosalie: xxxvii-xxxix; birth, 10; adopted by William and Jane Scott Mackenzie, 14; christened “Mackenzie,” 18; 26, 44, 50, 52, 61-62, 85, 141, 165, 183; visits Poe in Philadelphia, 322; corresponds with him, 401, 411, 417; inquires after his whereabouts, 709; 749-50; in Poe's company during his 1849 Richmond visit, 818, 822, 828, 830, 841-42; 851
Poe, Virginia Clemm (Poe's wife): xx-xxi; birth, 52; 88, 118, 125-26; Poe loves her “passionately devotedly,” 166-67; marriage license issued in Baltimore, 171; 174-75, 183, 188, 192; married in Richmond, 207-08; William Gowans’ description of her, 242; 244-45, 248, 263, 294, 311-13, 345, 348; onset of tuberculosis, 358-60; renewed pulmonary hemorrhaging, 368; slightly improved, 372, 374; “scarcely a faint hope of her recovery,” 378; F. W. Thomas regards her as “victim for an early grave,” 380-81; G. R. Graham's reminiscence, 390; “nearly recovered,” 401; 405-06; “angelically beautiful” (Mayne Reid's reminiscence), 410; health “much better,” 411; 415, 437, 445; “coughed none at all,” 456-57; 461, 471, 485, 512, 523-24, 535-36; “she has the Bronchitis,” 538; 544, 546, 551; R. H. Stoddard's reminiscence, 553; 559; Mrs. Osgood's reminiscences, 622, 624; Virginia's 1846 valentine to Poe, 624-25; 626, 628, 634; Mrs. Gove's description of her, 644; 645, 651-52; Mrs. Gove recalls her final illness, 669-70; newspaper reports of illness, 672-78; 679, 683; death, 684, and burial, 685-86; 688-89, 691, 693-94; Poe describes her prolonged illness to G. W. Eveleth, 715-16, and discusses her with Bardwell Heywood, 759; 840, 846
Poe, Washington: xxxix, 196-98, 304-06, 316
Poe, William (father of Georgia family): xxxix
Poe, William (son): xxxix; corresponds with Poe, 165-66, and Maria Clemm, 175, 182-83; advances $50 for Mrs. Clemm, 188-89, 196-98; 210; inquires about Penn Magazine, 304-06; 316, 412; writes Poe from Baltimore, 415
Poe, William Henry Leonard: see Henry Poe
Poems (1831): 116-21, 583, 586
“Poetry” (Poe's verses in Ellis & Allan files): 62-63
Poet's Magazine (Albany, New York): 368
Poitiaux, Catherine Elizabeth: xxxix, 24, 30, 829-30
Poitiaux, Mary I.: see Mary I. Dixon
Poitiaux, Michael B.: xxxiii, xxxix, 24, 43, 109, 829-30
Politian: 65, 72, 149; published as “Scenes from an Unpublished Drama,” 179-80, 183-89, 219; collected in The Raven and Other Poems, 569, 571, 592, 599, 614, 620, 627
Pollard, George W.: 208-09
Poore, Mrs. (boardinghouse keeper): 164-65
Pope, Alexander: 210-11, 510, 841; The Dunciad, 517, 629, 731
Popular Record of Modern Science (London): 596, 617, 624, 631, 633, 646, 677, 727
Porter, Timothy O.: 283-84
Portland Advertiser (Maine): 181
Portland Jeffersonian (Maine): 233-34
portraits of Poe: reputed Thomas Sully portrait, 284; Saturday Museum portrait, 396, 399-400, 404; A. C. Smith portrait in Graham's, 446, 456, 490-94, 497, 734; Samuel S. Osgood portrait, 608
Post, Israel: xxxix, 249, 381, 674, 774, 790, 802
Power, Mrs. Anna Marsh (mother of Mrs. Whitman): xlviii, 757, 760-61, 766-68, 771, 776-77, 779-80, 787
Power, Susan Anna (sister of Mrs. Whitman): xlviii, 760, 771, 776
power of analysis: Poe praised for, 285, 376, 397, 430, 440, 442-43, 490, 529, 554, 556-57, 595, 621, 659, 666, 694-95, 715, 721-22, 725, 731, 751, 760
Pratt, William A.: 838
Prentice, George D.: 342-43, 350, 438, 590
Prescott, William H.: 562, 605
Preston, Colonel James P.: xxxix, 89, 93
Preston, John T. L.: xxxix, 53, 93
Priestley, John: 786
Prose Romances: see The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe
Providence, Rhode Island: Mrs. Whitman's home, xlviii; Poe's July 1845 visit, 544-46; he calls on Mrs. Whitman in late September 1848, 755-57, and in late October, 761-62, and again in early November, 764-68; his early December visit, 775-76, and lecture on 20 December, 777-78; his last day in Providence, 779-80
Public Ledger (Philadelphia): 250, 268, 278-79, 302, 345, 365, 367, 385, 409, 415-17, 419-21, 423, 425-27, 429, 433-34, 441, 444, 448, 454, 464, 649, 654, 851; Poe's contributions, 467-69
Putnam, George P.: xxxix-xl, 255, 585, 608, 731, 733-34, 737-38, 742, 752, 762-63, 777, 785, 800, 803-04, 807
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“Raising the Wind”: see “Diddling”
Raleigh Star (North Carolina): 234
Raleigh Times (North Carolina): 832
Ramblers’ Magazine (New York): 7-8
Ramsay, Arch: 671, 677, 680-81, 698
Randolph, John: 85, 214, 221, 571
Raumer, Frederick van: 214, 596-97
Ravenel, Dr. Edmund: 85
Rawlings, Dr. George W.: 823
Raymond, Henry J.: 384
Reading, Pennsylvania: Poe lectures in, 453-55
Reading Gazette: 454
Regenerator (Fruit Hills, Ohio): 533, 552, 568, 570
Reinman, J. F., and J. H. Walker: 692, 696
religious concepts, Poe's: beliefs “somewhat detailed” in “Mesmeric Revelation,” 467-68; C. F. Briggs on Poe's attitude toward Bible, 564; Poe solves Biblical cryptograph, 615; attends Christmas Eve service with Mrs. Shew, 711; Poe's theory of creation in “Universe” lecture, 720-21, and objections from orthodox readers, 722-23, 725; J. H. Hopkins, Jr., objects to pantheism in forthcoming Eureka, 730-31, 733, 735, and attacks book in Literary World, 745-46; similar objection in New Church Repository, 747-48; Poe protests Hopkins’ critique, 755, 759; Eureka attacked by Church Review, 784, and Indicator, 789
Republican (Baltimore): see Baltimore Republican
Republican Herald (Providence): 777
Revue britannique (Paris): 585, 662, 672
Revue des Deux Mondes (Paris): 667, 681-82
Reynolds, Jeremiah N.: xl, 160, 179-80, 239-41, 436, 464, 515
Richard, John: xxii, 15, 44, 64
Richard, Mary Dixon (Mrs. John Richard): xxii, 14-15, 44, 64
Richardson, William: 18
Richmond, Annie: xl; first acquaintance with Poe, 740-42; visits Mrs. Clemm at Fordham, 753, 759; Poe becomes intimate with Annie and her family during second Lowell visit, 762-63; she advises him to marry Mrs. Whitman, 764; he consumes laudanum in Boston, 765, and writes her to declare his love, 768-69; she delays her answer, 770-71, 773; 780-81, 785; troubled by rumors about Poe's conduct toward Mrs. Whitman, 786-88; Poe writes Annie about “The Bells,” 791; he fears her husband has “mistaken the nature” of his love, 793-94; 795; he forwards “For Annie,” 797-98; Annie concerned over his health, 801-02; Poe's final visit to Lowell, 805, 807-10; Annie's correspondence with Mrs. Clemm during Poe's trip south, 812, 814, 816, 820, 823; “Do not tell me anything about Annie;’ 830; 831, 835, 840, 850; Annie reacts to Poe's death, 854
Richmond, Caddy (Annie's daughter): xl, 785, 810
Richmond, Charles B. (Annie's husband): xl, 740, 762, 785, 787, 794, 797, 810, 830-31, 835, 854
Richmond, city of: Poe's mother performs on stage, 9-10, 12; her lodgings, 12, and grave, 15; John Allan's residences, 14, 46, 48-49, 51, 64-65; Shockoe Hill Cemetery, 21, 58-59, 89, 138; Monumental Church, 21, 61; Charles Ellis residence, 46, 51; Lafayette visits, 61; Poe leaves for Boston, 78; he returns in March 1829, 89, and January 1830, 103-04; reputed visits in 1832 and 1834, 127, 137, 139; he arrives to work on Messenger, 164-65; leaves, 170-71, and returns with Mrs. Clemm and Virginia, 174-75; moves to Seventh Street, 208; Poe leaves for New York, 242; his 1848 visit to Richmond, 744, 746, 749-50, 753, 760; he returns (July 1849), 818; stays at Swan Tavern, 818, 822, 824, 829; calls at Mrs. Shelton's house, 821, 830, 843; lectures at Exchange Hotel, 825-28, 840-42; moves to Madison House, 831, 836; leaves on Baltimore boat, 843
Richmond Compiler: 23, 41-42, 45-46, 48, 51, 54-56, 64, 77, 104, 126, 141, 146, 151; publishes letter from “J.,” protesting Poe's criticism, 152-55; 156, 159, 169, 173-74, 181, 200-03, 215, 217, 220-21; suggests Poe's criticism is too severe, 222; Poe's letter to editor, 222-26; 555, 616
Richmond Enquirer: 9, 13-16, 52, 55-56, 59, 64, 76, 85-86, 138, 157-58, 163, 166, 170, 173, 188, 207, 849
Richmond Theatre fire: 16-17, 21, 90
Richmond Whig: 89, 104, 109, 162, 164, 184-85, 207, 217, 686, 820, 824-26, 833-36, 838, 851-52
Riebsam, W. D.: 396
Riker, John C.: 463
Roberts, George: xl, 325, 355, 369
Roberts’ Semi-Monthly Magazine (Boston): 341
Robertson, Judge John: 202
Robinson, Dr. W. M.: 207
Rochefoucault: 116
Rogers, Miss Mary C.: 336-37, 369, 385-87, 397, 543
“Romance” (“Romance who loves to nod and sing”): 25, 34, 100, 116, 398
Root, H. S.: 811
Root, James E.: 635
Rover (New York): 469, 511, 516, 543
Royster, Sarah Elmira: see Elmira Shelton
Rutgers Female Institute (New York City): 538-39, 548-49, 625
Ryan, Cornelius: 844
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Sanxay, R. D.: 104
Saratoga Springs, New York: 435
Sargent, Epes: xl, 355, 462, 657, 744-45
Sartain, John: xl, 284, 312, 327, 337, 430, 752-53, 774, 793, 795, 797; rescues Poe in Philadelphia, 812-17, 819
Sartain's Union Magazine (Philadelphia): xl-xli, 752-53, 774, 793-97, 802, 816, 843; Poe's contributions, xl-xli, 793
Saturday Chronicle (Philadelphia): 261, 302; Poe's contributions, 262, 327
Saturday Courier (Philadelphia): xxix; its 1831 short story contest, 120-24; entered by Poe, 122; award of premium, 124; Courier publishes Poe's earliest stories, 125-28; 250, 252, 261, 264-65, 270, 275, 281; publishes Poe's “Silence — A Sonnet,” 287; 288, 296-97, 302, 308, 415; reprints “The Gold-Bug,” 419, and reviews Prose Romances, 432-33; publishes “Diddling,” 435, 439; 441, 461, 494, 564, 617; reprints “The Raven,” 659; reprints “Ulalume,” 717-18; 725
Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia): xxvi-xxxvii, xxxvi, 72, 76-77, 107, 120, 122, 181, 187; publishes L. A. Wilmer's “Ode” to Poe, 252-53; edited by G. R. Graham, 260; 269, 272, 274-75, 280, 290; C. J. Peterson joins staff, 292-93; carries Penn Magazine prospectus, 299-300; 308-09, 311-12, 317-19, 323; Poe reviews Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge, 324, 326; 329, 335, 337, 340-41, 346, 353, 355, 359, 361-62, 364-65, 377, 381; S. D. Patterson acquires controlling interest, 402-03; 413, 429; Poe's “The Black Cat,” 433-35; Post accuses Poe of plagiarizing The Conchologist's First Book, 629-30, 633; 673, 683; Poe denies charge, 688, 691, 695-96; 722, 724-25, 744, 849; Poe's contributions, 122, 299-300, 324, 353, 434
Saturday Gazette (Philadelphia): xxxiv, 641-42, 653, 725
Saturday Museum (Philadelphia): xx, xxxiv; first number, 388; to feature Poe biography, 394, 396-97; H. B. Hirst's review of Griswold's Poets, 395-97; Poe's biography and poems published, 398-400, and reprinted, 402; Poe wrongly announced as editor, 402, 408; 404, 406-08, 410-14, 422, 424-25, 427, 429, 433, 437, 441-44, 449, 462, 469, 476, 490; Poe's contributions, 394, 398-99, 407-08, 410
Saturday Rambler (Boston): 745
Saturday Visiter (Baltimore): xxviii, xxx, xlii, xlix; edited by L. A. Wilmer, 125, and J. H. Hewitt, 127; publishes four minor poems by Poe, 128-29; announces premiums for best tale and poem, 129-30; publishes Poe's “MS. Found in a Bottle” as prize tale, 132-33; publishes Poe's “The Coliseum,” 134, and announces his “Tales of the Folio Club,” 134-35; 162-63, 168-69, 332, 340; J. E. Snodgrass becomes editor, 349; 351, 353-54, 356, 359-60, 363-64, 369, 376, 382, 397, 404, 424, 433, 449, 451-52, 494, 524, 528, 560-61, 593, 605-06, 635, 640, 645, 662, 844. See also Joseph Evans Snodgrass
Saunders and Otley: 227-28
Sawyer, Miss Annie: xxviii, 751, 759, 780, 809-10
“Scenes from an Unpublished Drama”: see Politian
Schiller, Friedrich von: 602
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von: 185
schools, attended by Poe: Clotilda Fisher's, 21; William Ewing's, 23; in Irvine, Scotland, 25; London school of Misses Dubourg, 29-30, 32-34; Ewing's praise of Poe, 35; Manor House School in Stoke Newington, 36-44; Joseph H. Clarke's advertisements, 41-42, 46, 48; John Allan reports Poe “a good Scholar,” 42; Poe attends Clarke's, 47, 50-54; his “school-boy verses” there, 47, 53-54; William Burke's advertisements, 52, 54-56; Poe attends Burke's, 56-64; his verses there, 58, 62-63; he attends school of Dr. and Mrs. Ray Thomas, 64. See also University of Virginia and West Point
“Science! meet daughter of old Time thou art”: see “Sonnet — To Science”
Scotland: John Allan and family visit Irvine, Kilmarnock, and Greenock, 25-26; Poe spends summer in Irvine, 41; Allans return to Irvine, 44; Poe inquires about Allans of Stonehaven and Kilmarnock, 677, 698
Scott, Andrew: 295
Scott, Harriet Virginia: 205
Scott, William: 220-21, 234-36, 240, 244
Scott, General Winfield: xix, 88, 107
“Secret Writing”: 332, 334, 336-39, 343, 351. See also “cryptography”
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria: 171, 175, 179, 185-86, 434-35, 618, 620, 662
Selden, Joseph: 56
Selden, Miles C.: 56
Semi-Weekly Examiner (Richmond): xxi, 750, 754, 786, 825-28, 836; publishes Poe's corrected “Raven,” 841-42; 843, 851; Weekly Examiner, 827
“Serenade”: 129
Seward, Mrs. Mary L.: 670
Shakespeare, William: xxix, 22, 62, 274, 302, 544, 563-64, 604, 679, 827-28
Sharp, Solomon P.: 65, 72, 180
Shea, J. Augustus: 499
Shelley, Perry Bysshe: 155, 412, 607, 671, 836
Shelton, Alexander B.: xli, 74, 87, 467, 839
Shelton, Ann Elizabeth: xli, 839
Shelton, Mrs. Elmira (formerly Miss Royster): xli; Poe falls in love with, 65; engagement broken, 74; romance depicted in Henry Poe's “The Pirate” and L. A. Wilmer's Merlin, 80-83; she marries Alexander B. Shelton, 87; 143, 159; meets Poe and his wife Virginia, 208; widowed, 467; 732; Poe renews acquaintance in July 1848, 746; 757, 775; he proposes marriage in 1849, 821; engagement rumored in Richmond, 828-30; “Nothing is yet definitely settled,” 836; Mrs. Shelton accepts Poe's proposal, 838-40, and writes Mrs. Clemm, 840; Miss Talley's description of her, 841; Mrs. Shelton recalls Poe's departure from Richmond, 843; 846, 852-54
Shelton, Southall Bohannan: xli, 839
Sherburne, Miss George Ann Humphreys: her “Imogine,” 422-26, 429-30, 432
Shew, Mrs. Marie Louise: xli, 245, 669-70, 683-87, 693-94, 696-98, 710-11, 717, 720, 726-27, 730-32, 734-35, 755
Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia H.: xli-xlii, 140, 171, 175; Poe's review of Zinzendorff, and Other Poems, 185, 189, 198, 223; she denies imitating Mrs. Hemans, 199; contributes to Messenger, 209-10, 213, 231; Poe's review of Letters to Young Ladies, 214; she contributes to Graham's, 348-49; Poe's review of Pocahontas, 356; he evaluates her poetry in New York lecture, 510, 512; 788, 791
“Silence — A Fable” (formerly “Siope”): 245, 279, 285, 569
“Silence — A Sonnet”: see “Sonnet — Silence”
Simmons, A. H., & Co.: 395, 409, 416, 419
Simmons, Mrs. Samuel F. (Sarah P.): 126
Simms, William Gilmore: xlii, 175; Poe's review of The Partisan, 185, 202, 223, 517; Simms wrongly reported as Messenger editor, 204-05, 215, 228-29; he discusses Poe's criticisms appearing in Messenger, 213-14; 231, 274, 309-10, 351, 364, 402; notices Poe's Stylus, 413-14, 422; praises Poe in letter to E. A. Duyckinck, 517; 523, 556, 558-59, 565; Poe reviews The Wigwam and the Cabin in Broadway Journal, 574-76; Simms discusses Poe's Boston Lyceum appearance, 588; 589, 593; notices Poe's Tales, 598-99; 607; Poe's second review of Wigwam collection, 613; Simms reviews The Raven and Other Poems, 628-29; 630-32, 640, 654; comments on Poe's “Literati” sketches, 655-56; 658; admonishes Poe (“You are no longer a boy”), 659-60; 665, 669, 694, 708, 715, 724
“Siope”: see “Silence — A Fable”
Sir Edward Seaward (fiction by Miss Porter): 252, 256-57
Slavery and abolitionism: xxxvi, 24, 64, 100; Lucian Minor's “Liberian Literature,” 190, 193-95; Beverley Tucker's essay review on “Slavery,” 200, 205; Robert Carter's attack on Broadway Journal, 520-22, 524-25; 792
Slidell, Alexander: see Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
Sloanaker, William: 752
Smith, Edmund Morton: xxviii, 849
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes: xlii, 497, 500, 510, 528, 534-35, 553, 564, 595, 612, 620, 622, 781
Smith, Horace Wemyss: xlii, 263, 437
Smith, Richard Penn: xlii, 121, 124, 263, 265
Smith, Seba (“Major Jack Downing”): xlii, 211, 231, 333
Smith, Mrs. Seba: see Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Smith, Thomas S.: xlii, xlv, 378-80, 383-84, 386-87, 396-97, 403
Smith's Weekly Volume (Philadelphia): 601
Snodgrass, Joseph Evans: xlii-xliii, 256; writes notice of September 1839 Burton's, 269, 273, 276; 281, 283; criticizes N. C. Brooks, 287; seeks return of manuscript entered in Burton's contest, 302-03, 317, 322; 335, 341-42; edits Saturday Visiter, 349; praises Poe's “Autography,” 351; censures G. R. Graham and John Tomlin, 353-54; 355; praises Poe's criticisms, 356, 359-60, but finds him “provokingly hypercritical,” 363; 364; Poe suggests Snodgrass join him in magazine project, 369-70; 376, 382; Snodgrass comments on Poe's “Marie Rogêt,” 397, Stylus, 404, “Gold-Bug,” 424, Saturday Museum biography and Prose Romances, 433, review of Eugene Sue, 449, lecture on “American Poetry,” 451-52, portrait in Graham's, 494, “powerful pen,” 524, and book reviews in “Broad-axe journal,” 528; 560, 593, 605, 635, 640, 645, 662; Snodgrass finds Poe comatose at Baltimore polling place, 844-45; attends his funeral, 848
Snodgrass, William Davis: 539, 549
Snowden, Edgar: 141
Snowden, William W.: 254, 371, 456, 464
“Some Account of Stonehenge”: 302
“Some Ancient Greek Authors” (attributed to Poe): 200, 216
“Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House”: 502, 504-05
Something (Boston): 8
“Some Words with a Mummy”: 484, 522, 586
“Song” (“I saw thee on thy bridal day”): 72, 81, 101, 570
“Song of the Newly-Wedded”: see “Bridal Ballad”
“Song of Triumph” (incorporated in “Epimanes”): 196
“Sonnet — Silence” (originally “Silence — A Sonnet”): 284, 287, 293, 398, 554
“Sonnet — To my Mother”: 802, 810, 812, 816, 823-24
“Sonnet — To Science”: 100, 107, 116, 121, 208, 398, 558, 613
“Sonnet to Zante”: see “To Zante”
Southern and Western Magazine (Charleston, South Carolina): xlii, 556, 565, 598-99
Southern Courant (Washington, Georgia): 567-68
Southern Literary Gazette (Athens, Georgia): 753, 766-67, 799
Southern Literary Journal (Charleston, South Carolina): 205, 208, 211, 213-14
Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond): xxviii, xxxiii, xliii, xlv, xlvii-xlviii; commences publication, 139-41; irregular appearance of monthly numbers, 145-46; circulation, 147-48, 151, 172, 208; price for subscription, 208-09; Poe's contributions, (March 1835) 149, (April) 151, (May) 155, (June) 159-60, (July) 163-64, (August) 168-69, (September) 172, (December) 177-80, (January 1836) 185, (February) 191, (March) 196, (April) 199-200, (May) 208, (June) 211-12, (July) 214, (August) 221, (September) 226-27, (October) 229-30, (November) 235, (January 1837) 241-42, (February) 243, (December 1844) 478, (March 1845) 508, (May) 530, (September 1848) 753, (October) 760, (November) 766, (March 1849) 795, (April) 798, (May) 801, (June) 808, (July) 812, (August) 821, (September) 831, (November) 843; Poe mentioned in Messenger after editorship, 268-70, 272-73, 285-86, 497, 508, 523-24, 632, 668-69, 671, 715, 798; Poe's subsequent references to editorship, 299-300, 306, 476, 518, 520, 524-25, 601; Poe and T. C. Clarke attempt to buy subscription list, 401-02, 407, 411. See also Thomas Willis White, Benjamin Blake Minor, John R. Thompson, Broadway Journal, and “income”
Southern Patriot (Charleston, South Carolina): xlii, 588, 593, 607, 628-29, 654-56, 660
Southern Quarterly Review (New Orleans, later Charleston, South Carolina): 356, 739
Southern Religious Telegraph (Richmond): 207
Southern Rose (Charleston, South Carolina): 234
Southey, Robert: 172, 214, 220
Sparhawk, Edward V.: xvii, xliii, 85; succeeds J. E. Heath as Messenger editor, 149; 155-57, 160; replaced by Poe, 165-67; 169, 173, 176-77, 207
Spear, Thomas G.: 359
Spectator (London): 257-58, 557, 620, 646
Spence, George W.: 848
Spinoza: 725
Spirit of the Times (New York): 187, 222, 281, 634, 681
Spirit of the Times (Philadelphia): xxiii, 295-96, 302, 304, 355-57, 377-81, 385, 387, 398-99, 402-04, 407-09, 414, 417, 420-23, 425-26, 429-32, 434, 436, 440, 442-43, 447-48, 453-54, 456, 491, 524, 533, 553, 565, 568, 649; publishes Poe's “Reply to Mr. English,” 652-53, 655; 681, 690-91, 851-52
“Spirits of the Dead” (formerly “Visit of the Dead”): 81, 101, 264
“Spiritual Song”: 237
Spotswood, George W.: 79-80
Sprague, Charles: 323, 327, 338, 355, 447, 508, 510, 513
Stanard, Mrs. Jane Stith Craig: xliii, 21, 51, 57-59, 757
Stanard, Robert: xliii, 21, 56, 59
Stanard, Robert Craig: xliii, 21, 56-59
Star of Bethlehem (Lowell, Massachusetts): 537, 574
Starr, Mary (later Mrs. Jenning): xliii, 126, 313, 371, 683, 685-86
Steele, Silas S.: 433-34
Stephens, Mrs. Ann S.: 211, 349, 351, 359, 647, 686
Stephens, John L.: xxvii, 244-45, 325, 337-38
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy, 799
Stevenson, Andrew: xliii, 43, 91
Stockton, William Telfair: xliii, 106
Stoddard, Richard Henry: xliii, 309, 545, 553-54, 558, 585, 707
Stone, William Leete: xliii-xliv, 171, 175; condemns Poe's criticism, 198; Poe replies, 200, and obtains Stone's autograph for “Autography,” 211, 231; Poe's review of Ups and Downs, 212, 216-17, 223-26; Stone's protest against “Autography,” 236; Stone and Poe at Booksellers Dinner, 243-44
Story, William Wetmore: 514
Street, Alfred B.: 607
street pavements, Poe's articles on: 465, 501, 526
Strobia, John H.: 43, 828, 830
Sturdivant, John: 295, 309-11, 380-81
Stylus (Poe's proposed journal, originally called Penn Magazine): T. C. Clarke enlisted as publisher, 394-96; prospectus published in Saturday Museum, 398-99, 402; Poe and Clarke attempt to buy subscription list of Messenger, 401-02, 407, 411; Poe “making a sensation” in Washington, 404-05; Poe seeks contributions from Lowell and Hawthorne, 408, 411-13; prospectus excerpted by Boston Notion, 411; Clarke withdraws from project, 412-13, 416-17, 422; W. G. Simms notices project, 413-14, 422; too many “Dish-water Magazines,” 440; Poe proposes journal run by coalition of leading authors, 456, 475; “A Magazine like Graham's will never do,” 467, 476; N. P. Willis reports Poe's availability for editorship, 491; project noticed by New York Town, 502, and A. M. Ide, Jr., 503; G. W. Eveleth “earnest to receive” magazine, 666, 672-73, 702, 704, 709-10; Poe's January 1848 prospectus, 714-16; he hopes to raise funds with “Universe” lecture, 717-22, 725; revises his prospectus, 726; promotional tour to Richmond delayed, 727, 730, 737; Poe leaves on tour (July 1848), 744, 753; he proposes project to Eli Bowen, 754-55, 761, and requests $200 loan from Edward Valentine, 769-70, 773; E. H. N. Patterson invites Poe to join him on magazine project, 777; Poe lists likely subscribers in notebook, 781; Eveleth retains faith, 793; Poe acknowledges Patterson's proposal, 800-01, 803, and asks him to forward $50 for travel, 804-06, 808; Patterson suggests three-dollar magazine, 809; Poe leaves for Richmond, 810-12, and acknowledges $50 from Patterson, 819; “the mere idea of a ‘$3 Magazine’ would suggest namby-pamby-ism & frivolity,” 823; Patterson to meet Poe in Saint Louis, 827-28
Sue, Eugéne: The Mysteries of Paris, 449, 668, 681
Sully, Robert M.: xliv
Sun (Baltimore): 256, 266-67, 280, 294, 409, 415, 449-51, 455, 843-44, 847-48, 851-52; Weekly Sun, 455
Sun (New York): publishes R. A. Locke's “Moon-Hoax,” 166, and Poe's “Balloon-Hoax,” 457-61; 689
Sun (Philadelphia): 504-05
Sun (Washington): 201
Sunday Dispatch (New York): 696, 728
Sunday Mercury (New York): 458, 659
Sunday Morning News (New York): 252
Sunday Times (London): 615, 646
Sunday Times and Messenger (New York): xxxiv, 458, 581-82, 586
Suter, Charles: 848
Sutherland, Joel B.: 449
Swedenborg, Emanuel: 468, 556, 587, 748, 752
Swift, Jonathan: 221; Poe's Pym compared to Gulliver's Travels, 253-54
“Sylvio” (pseudonym): 179
Symmes, John Cleves: 175-76
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Tacitus: 71
tailors’ bills, incurred by Poe: 20-21, 23-24, 52, 62-63, 73, 89, 104-05
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (Scotland): 558, 567
“Tales of the Folio Club” (Poe's proposed collection): xxx, 127, 132-35; submitted to Carey & Lea, 135-36; H. C. Carey promises publication, 142-43, 149; T. W. White willing to publish, 168, 170; “sixteen in all,” 169; Carey declines project, 175; manuscript story misplaced, 181-82, 191; Harper & Brothers decline project, 192-93, 195, and write Poe, 212-13; Poe's description of series, 225; Saunders and Otley consider project, 227-28
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque: xix, 81, 200; Poe plans to publish, 269, 271-72; Lea & Blanchard cannot pay royalties, 272, 274, 276-77; book to include “advertisement” of favorable opinions, 273-74, 276; advance notice of, 275; only 750 copies, 277; publication and reception, 278-85, 287; 303-05, 308, 311; sales disappointing, 338; copy given to Charles Dickens, 362; 370, 385, 449, 490, 606, 774
Tales (1845): Wiley and Putnam agree to issue, 513-14, 518, 520; Tales copyrighted, 537-39, and published, 540-41; reception, 542-43, 548-50, 552, 555-56; issued in England, 555, 557; 558, 560, 562-63, 566-68, 571-72; “more than fifteen hundred copies have been sold,” 574; 575, 585-87, 591, 594-95, 598-99, 606-08, 616, 621; reissued in cloth volume with The Raven and Other Poems, 627; 630-32, 642, 646, 649, 651, 660-61, 665; E. D. Forgues's critique in Paris Revue des Deux Mondes, 667; 669, 681-82, 694; lengthy criticism in Blackwood's Magazine, 708-09, 715; 722, 740, 755
Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon (Sergeant): 227, 346, 349, 356
Talisman and Odd Fellows’ Magazine (Philadelphia and New York): 663
Talley, Susan Archer (later Mrs. Weiss): xvi, xliv, 177, 770, 773, 775, 786, 790, 818, 822, 840-43
“Tamerlane”: 52, 81, 100-01, 104, 116, 569, 600, 618
Tamerlane and Other Poems: 81-83, 101
Tasistro, Louis F.: 284
Tate, Joseph: xv
Tayle, Edward: 44
Taylor, Bayard: xliv, 738, 744, 789
Tazewell, Littleton Waller: 219
Tazewell, Mrs. Littleton Waller: 10
teaching: Poe seeks employment in, 119, 148, 163, 165-66
Telegraph (Washington): see United States Telegraph
Tennyson, Alfred: 125, 232, 288-90, 377, 446, 494, 499-500, 534, 592, 597, 616, 633, 828
Thayer, Colonel Sylvanus: xliv, 107-08, 116-17
“The American Drama”: 556
“The Angel of the Odd”: 464, 472-73
“The Assignation” (formerly “The Visionary”): 136, 164, 166-67, 169-70, 173, 264, 279, 311, 537
“The Atlantis, a Southern World” (attributed to Poe): 256, 258
“The Authors of America”: see “Literary America”
“The Balloon-Hoax”: xxvi; sources, 130, 139, 414; published in New York Sun, 457-61; “about 50,000” copies reported sold, 461; 462; Poe identified as author, 490
“The Bargain Lost”: 25, 34, 128
“The Bells”: xl-xli; Poe writes first draft at Mrs. Shew's, 732; submits eighteen-line version to Sartain's, 774; 778; completes expanded version, 791, and sends it to Sartain's, 794-95; gives manuscripts of third version to Annie Richmond, 807, and John Sartain, 816; 834
“The Beloved Physician”: 697
“The Black Cat”: 413, 433-35, 463, 540, 568, 621, 683, 708, 764
“The Business Man” (later version of “Peter Pendulum”): 558
“The Cask of Amontillado”: 667
“The City in the Sea” (later version of “The Doomed City”): 522, 565, 592, 599, 660
“The City of Sin”: see “The Doomed City”
“The Coliseum”: 132-34, 168, 173-74, 329, 363, 398, 550, 573, 592, 599, 614, 699
“The Colloquy of Monos and Una”: 337, 540
The Conchologist's First Book (by Thomas Wyatt with Poe's help): Poe's role, 259, 390; publication, 260-61; second edition, 269-70; Wyatt claims authorship, 390, 678; Poe's name removed from third edition, 608; Poe accused of plagiarism, 629-30, 633, 683, 688, 691, 695-96
“The Conqueror Worm”: 394, 398, 502, 534, 592, 599, 614, 629, 699, 718
“The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion”: 278-79, 283, 410, 540, 621, 702
“The Devil in the Belfry”: 262, 279, 587
“The Divine Right of Kings” (attributed to Poe): 573
“The Domain of Arnheim”: 679, 694, 808
“The Doom”: see “Benedict”
“The Doomed City” (early version of “The City in the Sea”): 116, 119, 221, 232
“The Duc de L’Omelette” (originally “The Duke de L’Omelette”): 126, 191, 194, 202-04, 279, 308, 575
“The Elk” (originally “Morning on the Wissahiccon”): 389, 440, 463
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”: 498; publication and reception, 598, 603, 605-07, 615-17, 619-20; reprinted as pamphlet in London, 621-22; 624, 631-33, 635, 646, 661; Arch Ramsay writes Poe, 671, 677, 680-81, 698; 701, 715, 718, 727, 741, 826
“The Fall of the House of Usher”: sources, 14, 83; publication and reception, 267-73, 275; collected in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 278-79, 281, 283-84; reprinted in Bentley's Miscellany, 305, and Boston Notion, 307; 328, 494; collected in 1845 Tales, 540, 543, 550, 567, 574, 587, 621; anthologized in R. W. Griswold's Prose Writers of America, 694-95; 718, 741, 752
“The Gold-Bug”: x; entered in Dollar Newspaper contest, 408-09; Poe reads manuscript to F. O. C. Darley, 413; story awarded $100 prize, 414-16; published in two installments, 417, 419-20; copyrighted, 419; Poe accused of collusion with prize committee, 419-20; he commences libel suit against F. H. Duffee, 420-22; second edition, 421; John S. Du Solle's facetious accusation of plagiarism, 422-26; Duffee's letter of protest, 423-24; third and fourth editions, 425; resolution of libel suit, 429, 431-32; story dramatized at Walnut Street Theatre, 433-34; 441, 449, 456; “more than 300,000 copies have been circulated,” 463; 494, 506, 515, 531; collected in 1845 Tales, 540, 543, 567-68, 575; translated into French, 585; 586-87, 599, 621, 660-61, 679, 695, 731; Isabelle Meunier's French translation, 734, 738; 745, 754
“The happiest day — the happiest hour”: 80-83
“The Haunted Palace”: publication, 260; incorporated in “Usher,” 267; selected for R. W. Griswold's Poets, 328, 363; 398, 446, 490-91, 494-95, 498, 503, 560-61, 587, 592, 594-95, 599, 621, 699
“The Imp of the Perverse”: 545, 559, 571, 602-03
“The Island of the Fay”: 188, 327-28, 574
“The Journal of Julius Rodman”: 17; serialization announced, 277-78, and commenced, 285-96, 302; cited in Senate report, 289; Poe declines to continue, 298
“The Landscape Garden”: 375, 382-83, 570, 694
“The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.”: 471-72, 478, 487, 490, 554
“The Literati of New York City”: 542; Poe prepares sketches, 621-22, 629, 634; serialization in Godey's commences, 635-39; “every copy is bought up,” 640-41; C. F. Briggs attacks series, 642-43, 645-46; Poe's flippant sketch of T. D. English, 647, and ensuing controversy, 647-60; Poe attacks L. G. Clark, 662, 664-65; 666-68; hopes to expand series into book, 672-73, 675; L. A. Godey inquires about Poe's reason for discontinuing series, 679-80; 689-91, 731, 751. See also Godey's (Poe's contributions, May through October 1846), and “Literary America”
The Lover's Gift (Hartford, Connecticut): 781
“The Man of the Crowd”: 311, 540
“The Man that was Used Up”: publication, 266; 278, 285; reprinted in Prose Romances, 426-30, 432, 436, 506; 559
“The Masque of the Red Death”: 364, 368, 552, 606
“The Messenger Star”: see “Al Aaraaf”
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”: x; sources, 30, 265; manuscript, 319; publication, 321, 323-26; its popularity, 335; 365, 369; reprinted in Prose Romances, 426-30, 433, 436, 506; collected in 1845 Tales, 540, 543, 549, 567-68, 608, 621; first translated into French, 645; 661; E. D. Forgues's translation, 666, and ensuing controversy, 667; 668, 671-72, 677, 680-84; Isabelle Meunier's translation, 685; 695
The Musiad or Ninead: Poe satirized in, 103
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”: 336-37, 369-70, 382-88, 396-97, 540, 543, 557, 567-68, 621
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: sources, xl, 176, 221, 241; partial publication in Messenger, 239, 241-43; Harper & Brothers have book “nearly ready,” 244-45; publication and reception, 248-58; reprinted in England, 255-56; Harpers write Poe, 260; Pym excerpted in London, 267; 293; another English reprint, 355; 416, 440, 603
“The Oblong Box”: 462-63, 467, 469-70, 603
“The Oval Portrait” (formerly “Life in Death”): 363, 528, 530
“The Philosophy of Composition”: 632, 671, 700, 772
“The Philosophy of Furniture”: 294, 296, 530-31
“The Pit and the Pendulum”: 370, 381, 533, 554
“The Poetic Principle”: publication of, x1i. See also “lectures”
The Poetry of the Sentiments (Philadelphia): 573
“The Power of Words”: 537, 581
“The Premature Burial”: 463, 467-69, 538
The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: 426-30, 432-33, 436
“The Psyche Zenobia”: see “How to Write a Blackwood Article”
“The Purloined Letter”: 463, 470, 477-78, 489-91, 540, 543, 556, 564, 695
“The Rationale of Verse”: 671, 673, 702, 704, 715, 727, 749, 760, 766-67
“The Raven”: x; sources, 34, 324; traditions regarding composition, 435, 437, 463-64; sold to American Review, 484; Poe solicits opinions from R. H. Horne and others, 494-96; poem published in Evening Mirror and American Review, 496-97; commentary, reprintings, and parodies, 497-506, 508, 511-12, 514, 517, 520-21, 523; poem anthologized in Vandenhoff's Elocution, 524-25; inclusion in Griswold's Poets delayed, 527-28; “The bird beat the bug,” 530-31; opinions of Miss Barrett, 531, and R. H. Horne, 534; 535; poem reprinted by London Critic, 538; 540, 544, 551-54, 561, 577-78, 586; collected in The Raven and Other Poems, 592-96, 598-99, 602; 606-07, 612-13, 616, 618, 620; reprinted in London Athenaeum, 626-27, 629; 630-31; a “fit horror” in England, 632-33; 634-35, 637, 644-46, 654, 659-60, 666, 671-72, 681, 695; poem celebrated by Alonzo Lewis, 697; included in eighth edition of Griswold's Poets, 699; 700, 703, 711, 715, 717; celebrated in Mrs. Whitman's valentine “To Edgar A. Poe,” 726, 729-30; 731, 739-41, 744, 750; manuscript copy inscribed to Dr. S. A. Whitaker, 754-55, 757-58; 760-64, 772, 778, 785-86, 791, 796, 799-801; J. E. Tuel's parody, 805, 807, 809-10; 825-27, 833-34, 836; corrected copy published in Richmond Examiner, 841-42; 844, 852
The Raven and Other Poems: 565, 569, 571, 573, 577-78, 585; book copyrighted, 588-89, and published, 591-92; reception, 592-96, 598-604, 612-13; issued in England, 614; 616-20, 626-33, 635, 639, 645, 660, 665-66, 695, 728, 755, 781
“The Scythe of Time”: see “A Predicament”
“The Signora Zenobia”: see “How to Write a Blackwood Article”
“The Sleeper” (later version of “Irene”): 327, 363, 398, 446, 527, 530, 592, 595, 599, 614, 629, 633, 645, 672, 699, 807
“The Spectacles”: 199, 455-56, 460, 463, 530, 593, 616
“The Sphinx”: 613
“The Swiss Bell-ringers”: 474
“The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether”: 463, 580, 616
“The Tell-Tale Heart”: 388-89, 394-95, 564-65, 587
“The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”: 492, 497, 581, 616
Th’ Time o’ Day (Petersburg, Virginia): xxvii, 267
“The Universe”: see “lectures”
“The Valley Nis” (early version of “The Valley of Unrest”): 116, 191, 202-03
“The Valley of Unrest”: 522, 569, 592, 613, 629, 633, 645, 672
“The Visionary”: see “The Assignation”
Thespian Society (Richmond): xliv, 57
Thomas, Calvin F. S.: xliv, 80-81
Thomas, Edward J.: xliv, 539-40, 546-47, 647-48, 652, 687-88, 696
Thomas, Frances Ann (“Fanny”): 311-12, 661
Thomas, Frederick William: xliv-xlv; friendship with Henry Poe, 87-88; Poe's review of Clinton Bradshaw, 179, 223; Thomas meets Poe and J. E. Dow, 295-97; his novel Howard Pinckney, 295-96, 298, 308; writes Poe from Saint Louis, 309-12; arrives in Washington, 319-20; gives opinion of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” 323, 325-26; suggests Poe seek clerkship in Washington, 327; offers to provide sketches for R. W. Griswold, 328-29; obtains office in Treasury Department, 332-33; sees J. P. Kennedy in Poe's behalf, 334, 336, 339; wishes to have song published, 339, 342-43, 345, 348; sends Poe an account of his career, 340; his intimacy with President Tyler's family, 342; included in “Autography,” 345; forwards H. M. Brackenridge letter, 347-48; studies French, 350, 357-58; discusses “Autography,” 359-60; 362; proposes situation in Philadelphia Custom House for Poe, 365-66; 371, 376-79; visits Poe in Philadelphia, 380-81; gives Poe “new hope” of appointment, 385-87; invited to write Poe's biography, 394, 396-97; 398-99, 401; confined to bed when Poe visits Washington, 403-05; Poe apologizes for “petulance,” 406-08; Thomas asks Poe to review The Beechen Tree, 469-70, 474; Poe's brief notice, 477, 479, 485; Poe sends Thomas “The Raven,” 530-31, 533; Thomas furnishes biographical sketches for Broadway Journal, 548, 558, 571; requests return of sketches, 661-62; Poe apparently sees him in July 1847, 703; Thomas commences Chronicle of Western Literature, 772, 792; 799
Thomas, Dr. and Mrs. Ray: 64
Thompson, John R.: xlv; makes Poe's acquaintance, 749, writes P. P. Cooke about him, 760, and solicits his contributions for Messenger, 764, 775; Poe to continue “Marginalia” series in Messenger, 786, 788-89; Thompson's friendship with R. W. Griswold, 789-90; 791-92, 798, 805, 808-09, 819-20, 822; Poe gives Thompson “Annabel Lee” manuscript, 842-43; Thompson comments on Poe's death, 854
Thomson, Charles West: xlv, 294, 303, 319, 324
Thornton, De Philip: xxii, 17, 43-44
“Thou Art the Man”: 463, 467, 476
“Three Sundays in a Week” (originally “A Succession of Sundays”): 345, 353, 531, 533, 537
Ticknor, William D.: 597, 675-76
Times (London): see Sunday Times
Timour the Tartar (by M. G. Lewis): 52, 99
“To — — —” (“I saw thee once”): see “To Helen Whitman”
“To — —” (“I saw thee on the bridal day”): see “Song”
“To — —” (“Should my early life seem”): 100
“To —” (“Sleep on”): 129
“To —” (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”): 101, 570
“To — —” by “M.” (attributed to Poe): 534-35
“To Elizabeth” (later under variant titles): 136, 172, 266, 570, 781
“To F[rances]”: see “To Mary”
“To F[rance]s S. O[sgoo]d”: see “To Elizabeth”
“To Helen”: Mrs. Stanard's influence, xliii, 57; publication in 1831 Poems, 116, 121; reprinted in Messenger, 196-97, 200-01, 203; revised poem in Graham's, 339, and Saturday Museum, 398; reprinted in Graham's biography of Poe and Daily Tribune, 490-92; sent to Mrs. Whitman, 728, 736; 781
“To Helen Whitman” (second “To Helen”): 546, 736, 738, 745, 756, 763, 771, 852
“To Ianthe in Heaven”: see “To One in Paradise”
“To M —” (“Oh! I care not that my earthly lot”): 101
“To Margaret”: 82
“To Marie Louise”: 726-27
“To Mary” (later “To One Departed” and “To Frances”): 143, 163, 361, 398, 528
“To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter”: 625
“To Octavia”: 79
“To One Beloved”: see “To One in Paradise”
“To One Departed”: see “To Mary”
“To One in Paradise” (formerly “To lanthe in Heaven”): 136, 164, 264-65, 267, 313, 317, 398, 531, 592, 594, 614, 618, 660
“To the River —”: 101, 266, 398, 569
“To Zante”: 241, 309, 398, 552, 592, 599
Tomlin, John: xlv, 274, 307, 309-10, 320, 323-24, 346, 353-54, 364-65, 383-85, 402, 412-13, 417, 422-23, 434-36, 453, 540, 774
Torch (London): 256-57
Town (New York): 502, 505, 514, 528, 533-35, 537, 547, 552, 554, 738
Townsend, William B.: 723
Transcendentalism (New England): xxv, 341, 42, 465, 467, 550, 601-04, 668
Travers, Robert: 449
Trollope, Frances: 208
Trumbull, John: 517
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley: xlv; contributes to Messenger, 141, 146; 151, 155; praises Poe and E. V. Sparhawk, 156; 157, 160, 169; corresponds with T. W. White about Poe, 182-84, 189-90; his review of December 1835 Messenger, 186-87; 196; his essay review on “Slavery,” 200, 205; White writes him about Poe's dismissal, 236, 239-42, 244; A. P. Upshur's review of The Partisan Leader, 239, 243, and Poe's of George Balcombe, 241, 244
Tucker, Thomas Goode: 69-70, 75
Tuckerman, Henry T.: xlvi, 355, 388-89, 497-98, 548-49, 789
Tuel, John E.: 805, 807, 809-10
Tupper, Martin Farquhar: xlvi, 585, 594, 607-08, 621, 629, 642, 646, 649, 671
Tuscaloosa Flag of the Union (Alabama): 201
Tutt, Arthur Turner: xxviii, 142, 374
Tutwiler, Henry: xxv-xxvi, 236-37
Tyler, President John: xliv, xlvi, 219, 319, 323-24, 327, 332-34, 336, 339, 342, 359, 365-66, 379, 382, 386-87, 405, 408
Tyler, John (son of President): 408
Tyler, Robert: xliv-xlvi, 334, 342, 359-60, 365-66, 368, 371-72, 377, 381, 386-87, 396-97, 399, 403, 405, 407-09, 443, 470
Tyson, Joseph Washington: 377
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“Ulalume”: xxvii, 704-08, 710, 715-18, 722, 756, 763, 770-71, 792, 796, 799, 833
Union Magazine (New York): xxx, xxxix, xl, xliv; commences, 702; 707, 709, 725, 733, 738; sold to John Sartain, 752-53; 771, 793, 795, 802; Poe's contributions, (March 1848) 727, (November) 763. See also Sartain's Union Magazine
United States Gazette (Philadelphia): xx, 201, 216, 250, 261, 268-69, 279, 283, 296-98, 302, 379-80, 395, 399, 402, 427, 434, 441, 447-48
United States Journal (Washington): xxiii, 581, 583
United States Review (Boston and New York): 82
United States Telegraph (Washington): xliii, 85, 186-87, 231-32
Universalist Watchman (Montpelier, Vermont): 566
University of Virginia: opens, 63, 67; Poe enrolls, 68; withdraws books from library, 68-69, 72-73; student disturbances, 68, 70-73; Poe's gambling, 71-72, 74-76, 91-92, 111-12; Poe joins Jefferson Literary Society, 74; his last night at University, 75-76
Upshur, Abel P.: xlv-xlvi, 239, 243, 343, 345, 399, 405
U. S. Army: Poe enlists, 80-81; ordered to Fort Moultrie, 83-84; appointed artificer, 85; ordered to Fortress Monroe, near Norfolk, 86-87; promoted to Sergeant-Major, 88; discharged from service, 89-90; indebted for substitute's bounty, 95-96; corresponds with Sergeant Graves, 105, 112
Usher, Elizabeth: 83
Usher, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Noble: 14
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Valentine, Miss Ann Moore (“Nancy”): xv, xlvi, 10, 20, 22, 24-27, 29-32, 36, 39, 43-47, 51, 58, 64, 78, 126, 130, 137-38, 165
Valentine, Edward (Frances Allan's brother): 20, 737, 769-70, 773
Valentine, Edward V.: xli, xlvi, 822, 841
Valentine, Frances Keeling: see Frances Allan
Valentine, Mary: 686
Valentine, Sarah (Mrs. John Dixon, Jr.): xxii, xlvi
Valentine, William Winston: 822, 841
Van Buren, Martin: xxvii, 295-96, 324, 403
Vandenhoff, George: 524-25
Van Winkle, Edgar S.: 234
Verplanck, Gulian C.: 638, 641
Virginia Patriot (Richmond): 12-15
Virginia Star (Petersburg): xxvii, 292, 294
“Visit of the Dead”: see “Spirits of the Dead”
Volunteer (Montrose, Pennsylvania): 433
“Von Jung, the Mystific”: see “Mystification”
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Waldie's Select Circulating Library (Philadelphia): 252, 263
Walker, Joseph W.: 844
Wallace, Horace Binney: xlvi, 335
Wallace, William Ross: xlvi, 355, 371, 375, 377, 464, 495-96, 551, 798
Walpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto, 568
Walsh, John: 123-25
Walsh, R. M.: 321
Walsh, Robert: xlvi-xlvii, 92-93, 208, 212-13, 240
Walter, Miss Cornelia Wells: xl, xlvii, 513, 579-80, 582-83, 586, 590, 593-94, 600-01, 614, 617, 639, 642, 677-78, 680
Walton, Octavia: 79
Ward, Samuel: 290
Ward, Thomas (“Flaccus”): xlvii, 398, 401, 421, 506, 515
Warren, Samuel: 344
Washington, D. C., city of: captured by British, 22; Poe walks to Washington (July 1829), 96; Poe's March 1843 visit, 403-07; Fuller's City Hotel, 403-05, 407, 571; Poe's probable July 1847 visit, 703
Washington, George: 72, 79, 146, 155, 157, 179-80, 185, 187, 208, 213
Watson, Henry C.: xlvii, 505-06, 514, 549-50
Watterston, George, et al: 601
Webb, James Watson: xlvii, 120-21, 673, 717, 724
Webster, Daniel: 342, 764, 825
Weekly Dispatch (New York): 323
Weekly Mirror (New York): see under Evening Mirror
Weekly News (New York): see under Morning News
Weekly Universe (New York): 704, 710, 716, 719, 722, 727-28, 731, 740, 759, 814
Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer: see Susan Archer Talley
Welby, Amelia B.: xlvii, 328-29, 343, 356, 379, 477-78, 510, 785
Weld, Horatio Hastings: 338
Wertenbaker, William: xlvii, 75-76
West, Charles E.: 538-39
Western Literary Messenger (Buffalo, New York): xliv, 470, 506, 574, 617-18, 705, 789
Western Luminary (Cincinnati): 535
Western Quarterly Review (Cincinnati): Poe's contribution, 798, 830
Weston, J. Alden: 848
West Point: Poe seeks appointment, 88-93, 95; sees Secretary of War Eaton, 96; not included in 1829 quota, 98; obtains appointment, 104-05; arrives at Military Academy, 106; classmates’ reminiscences of him, 107-09, 114-15, 117-18; Poe to seek dismissal, 111-12; his standing on mathematics and French examinations, 112, 115; court-martialed and dismissed, 113-14; leaves for New York, 114-15; writes Colonel Thayer, 116; cadets subscribe to Poems, 116-18; disgust with book's contents and manufacture, 117-18; Academy mentioned in Poe's correspondence, 229, 333, 718
Wetmore, Prosper M.: 657
Wheler's Southern Monthly Magazine (Athens, Georgia): 843
Whig (Quincy, Illinois): 630, 635
Whig Review: see American Review
Whipple, Edwin P.: xlvii, 354-55, 577, 594
Whitaker, Daniel K.: 208, 211, 213, 356
Whitaker, Dr. Samuel A.: 754, 757-58
White, Eliza: xlviii, 177, 179, 207, 679
White, Margaret Ann (wife of T. W. White): xlviii, 176, 228, 234-36, 240
White, Maria: see Maria White Lowell
White, Sarah Ann: xlviii
White, Thomas H. (son of T. W. White): xlviii, 158
White, Thomas Willis: xlvii-xlviii, 33; begins Southern Literary Messenger, 139-41; assisted by J. E. Heath, 146; seeks permanent editor, 147-48; assisted by E. V. Sparhawk, 149; Poe writes him about “Berenice,” 149-50; “I have nearly 1000 subscribers,” 151; White forwards payment to Poe, 155; 156-57; Poe willing to settle in Richmond, 158; 159-60, 162-64; “Mr. Poe is here,” 165-66; White appalled by Poe's drinking, 167-68, 170-72; 174-75; Poe has “shown himself no lawyer,” 176-77; 182-85, 189-90, 192-96, 198-99, 204-05; Messenger expenses surpass receipts, 207-08; his new house, 209; 210-13, 219-21, 225; White visits New York, 227-29; exonerates Poe from charge of vanity, 230; worried by wife's illness and lack of money, 234-36; dismisses Poe as editor, 236-37; aids him financially, 239; “Poe feels his situation at last,” 240; announces Poe's departure in Messenger, 241-42; condemns Poe's book reviews, 244; declines to reprint “Usher,” 268-70; death, 395; 401-02, 407, 411
Whitelock, William: 390
Whitman, John Winslow: xlviii, 786
Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen: xlviii, 518; Poe's first awareness of her, 536-37; he sees her in July 1845, 546; 553; her early fascination with his writings, 614; Miss Lynch and others respond to her inquiries, 616, 619-20; 625; Mrs. Whitman asks about Poe, 682, and learns his wife is “dying of Consumption,” 684-85; 687, 705; sends Miss Lynch a valentine addressed to Poe, 718, and is told he has “no moral sense,” 719; Mrs. Whitman's valentine is read at soiree, 726, sent to Poe, 727-28, and published in Home Journal, 729-30; 732, 734-35; Poe forwards his poem addressed to Mrs. Whitman, 736, and asks Anna Blackwell about her, 737-38; Mrs. Whitman learns of Poe's interest, 739; 741; replies to Poe's poem with her “Stanzas” published in Home Journal, 745; asks R. W. Griswold how Poe incurred enmity of so many authors, 746; sends manuscript verses to Poe, 747; learns about scandal involving Mrs. Ellet's letters, 752; Poe receives Mrs. Whitman's verses, 753, comes to Providence, 754-56, and proposes marriage, 757; she writes him, giving reasons for not accepting, 758-61; he visits her in late October 1848, 761-62; publication of Poe's second “To Helen,” 763; he returns in early November, 764-65, and calls upon her while intoxicated, 766; she consents to engagement, against her mother's wishes, 767, and composes “To Arcturus,” 768; Poe writes Annie Richmond about engagement, 768-69; the proposed marriage depends upon Poe's “firmness,” 770-72; Mrs. Whitman receives visit from Mrs. Osgood, 773-74; Poe returns to Providence in early December 1848, 775-76, and Mrs. Whitman's mother assumes control of family's estate, 776-77; Poe doubts that marriage will take place, 777-78; Mrs. Whitman attends Poe's lecture in Providence, 778, agrees to immediate marriage, 779, but withdraws after he drinks wine, 779-80; newspaper reports of engagement, 780-81, 786, 788; she writes Mrs. Osgood for information on Poe, 784-85; Poe asks Mrs. Whitman to deny rumors about broken engagement, 786-88, 790; she replies with poems in Metropolitan, 790, 797, and in Messenger, 795, 808; she visits Mrs. Locke in Lowell, 804-05, 808; completes poem commemorating Poe's marriage proposal, 831; 839-40, 852
Whitman, Walt: xlviii-xlix, 597, 665, 673, 681, 686, 711, 717
Whittier, John Greenleaf: 338, 455, 774
“Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling”: 279, 285, 304, 568-69
Wiley and Putnam: xxxix; reprint Pym in England, 255-56; agree to issue 1845 Tales, 513-14, 518, 520; copyright volume, 537-39, and publish it, 540-41; 542-43, 548; issue Tales in England, 555, 557; 560, 563, 565, 585; copyright The Raven and Other Poems, 588-89, and publish it, 591-92; 608; issue volume in England, 614; 615-16, 619; issue tales and poems bound together, 627; 632, 639, 672
Wiley and Putnam's “Library of American Books”: xxiii, xxviii, 513, 540-41, 548, 556, 566, 571-72, 574, 585, 587, 592, 595-96, 598, 665, 694, 708-09, 715
Willard, John B.: 763
Williamson & Burns: 704, 710, 716
“William Wilson”: sources, 36; publication, 261, 272, 274; Washington Irving on, 275; 278, 281, 283-84, 478, 565, 568
Willis, Nathaniel P.: xlix; rejects “Fairyland,” 99; 187, 211, 217; Poe reviews Inklings of Adventure, 220-21, 231, 233; Willis praises “Ligeia,” 258-59; Poe reviews Tortesa, the Usurer, 264, 266; 269, 292, 330; Poe solicits Willis’ contributions for Graham's, 348-49, 353; 395, 410, 436, 440; Poe writes Willis at New Mirror office, 462-63, discusses him and his paper, 465-66, and quotes “Unseen Spirits,” 466; Willis hires Poe as his assistant on Evening Mirror, 471, 473-74; 475, 477-78, 486; Poe notices Willis in Broadway Journal, 489, and Willis praises J. R. Lowell's biography of Poe, 490-91; Willis’ introduction to “The Raven,” 496; 499, 501-02, 505-07; he reviews Poe's lecture, 509-10, publishes letter from “Outis,” 510-11, and introduces Poe to Mrs. Osgood, 511-12; 514, 516-18, 527, 533, 556, 564-65; Willis withdraws from Evening Mirror, 607; 620, 636, 641; advises Poe against direct reply to C. F. Briggs, 643; joins Home Journal, 670, and writes editorial about Poe's reported destitution, 674-77, 680; 686, 690-91, 695-96, 701, 709; Willis reprints Poe's “Ulalume,” 710, 715, 717, and notices his “Universe” lecture, 718-20; 724, 726-27, 770, 774, 792, 796; reprints “For Annie,” 799-800, and suggests Poe be given annuity, 800; 801-02, 811, 814, 821, 825, 836, 850
Willmer and Smith's European Times (London): 683-84
Wills, Carter: 43
Wills, Mrs. Elizabeth: xvi, 106, 128
Wilmer, Lambert A.: xlix, 79; publishes Merlin, 81-83, and “To Mary” (later “To Mira”), 83; 101, 120; intimacy with Poe in Baltimore, 125-26; notices Poe's “manuscript tales” in Saturday Visiter, 127; leaves Baltimore, 128; 166, 179; Poe's review of The Confessions of Emilia Harrington, 191; Poe advises him to come to Richmond, 237; his “Ode” to Poe, 252-53; The Quacks of Helicon reviewed by Poe, 335, 337, and by John Tomlin, 364-65; 383; Wilmer writes Tomlin about Poe's drinking, 412-13, 422-23; his Recantation, 424; Poe obtains Wilmer's letter from Tomlin, 435-36, 453; 599
Wilmer, Margaret E.: xlix
Wilmington, Delaware: Poe's lecture in, 442-43
Wilson, John (“Christopher North”): xlix, 356, 490, 569, 574-76
Winchester Republican (Virginia): 169, 174
Winchester Virginian: 217
Winfree, Miss Mary: 143
Winslow, Miss Harriet B.: 730
Wirt, William: xlix, xxxi, xxxix, 23, 64, 88, 92, 94, 558, 571
Wise, Henry A.: 649
Wise, John: 414
Wood, Catherine: 29
Wordsworth, William: 563-64
Worth, William Jenkins: xlix, 90
Wyatt, Thomas: xlix-l; engages Poe for The Conchologist's First Book and A Synopsis of Natural History, 259; publication of these books, 260-61; Poe reviews Wyatt's Synopsis, 264-65; correspondence between Poe and Wyatt, 322-23, 398-99, 401; Wyatt discusses Poe, 390; intervenes in his fight with T. D. English, 623; 630, 678, 688. See also The Conchologist's First Book
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Notes:
Although the contents and formatting of this subject index generally reflect what appeared in the original printing, changes have been made for the sake of the reader and due to formatting for hypertext. The entry titles in the original, for example, have been rendered in bold here, with the label terminating with a colon. (There is no such distinction in the original printing.)
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