Text: Anonymous, “[Griswold and Poe],” The Independent (New York, NY), Vol. XXIX, whole no. 1472, February 15, 1877, p. 6, col. 2

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. . . . Mrs. Russell Stebbins, of Ridgefeld, once known as a literary lady, has written a private letter speaking kindly of Edgar Allan Poe, and giving as a reason of Dr. Griswold's enmity toward him the attachment of both men to the same woman -an attachment completely hopeless on the part of both. Mrs. Stebbins was once Mrs.

Hewitt and gained some reputation by her poems. She must hare known Dr. Griswold well, and she ought to have known that he never had any enmity to Poe; and if Poe bad any enmity to him, that would have been a sufficient reason for not making the Doctor Poe's literary legatee and biographer. The attachment of both men to the fame woman is a piece of romantic fiction