Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Notice of the Medical Lexicon (A), from the Evening Mirror (New York), January 23, 1845, vol. 1, no. 92, p. 2, col. 3

Notes:

This item was attributed to Poe by T. O. Mabbott and W. D. Hull. Mabbott's notes at the University of Iowa say, “Poe's interest and position after grasshoppers makes prob. . . . Poe made up with C. M. [[Cornelius Mathews]]” An earlier note seems to suggest that Mabbott would “prob omit . . . subject suggestive but doubtful,” with a later note “Barrett makes me more favorable.” Of this item, Hull says, “This may very well be, in fact probably is, by Poe; the style is his.” Hull goes on to note Poe's comments on Mathews, slamming Wakondah, but being more favorable in “Autography” and The Broadway Journal and Godey's reviews of Big Abel and Little Manhattan.