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Text: John H. Ingram, “Portrait of Elizabeth Arnold Poe,” Edgar Allan Poe: Life, Letters, and Opinions (1880), frontispiece of vol. II


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Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

ELIZABETH ARNOLD POE

(MOTHER OF THE POET)

FROM A MINIATURE IN THE POSSESSION OF J. H. INGRAM


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Notes:

This portrait is presumably a copy made by Mrs. Marie L. Shew, the original miniature having been lost in Philadelphia in October 1849. This portrait is now in the Richard Gimble Collection at the Philadelphia Free Public Library.


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