Text: Anonymous, “The Late Edgar A. Poe,” Richmond Daily Times (Richmond, VA), vol. 80, no. 58, March 10, 1853, p. 2, col. 4

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THE LATE EDGAR A. POE. — An attack, unexampled for ferocity and all uncharitableness, has recently appeared in the New York Sunday Atlas. That Mr. Poe, in common with the rest of mankind, possessed faults, no one will deny; but that he was “the irredeemable sot and vagabond — the monster of ingratitude” which this literary jackall charges him with having been, few persons in this or any other community where he was known, can be induced to believe.