Text: Anonymous, “[Griswold and Poe],” New-York Tribune (New York, NY), vol. XXXVI, whole no. 11,197, February 16, 1877, p. 4, col. 6

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Mrs. Russell Stebbins, according to a writer in The Independent, is wrong in stating that there was any enmity between Dr. Griswold and Poe, and that both had a romantic attachment to the same woman. But there are enough of persons, who knew all the parties concerned, still living in this city, to confirm the statement of Mrs. Stebbins. Dr. Griswold was a man of intense likes and dislikes, and withal very capricions in his moods. Those who knew him intimately were fully aware of his feeling toward Poe, and also that it was temporarily returned by the latter. The “attachment” was well known at the time: but, in both cases, it was a was mingling of devoted friendship and literary enthusiasm which never affected the fair fame of the lady.