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Peter Dudley Bernard


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(Born: 1804 - Died: December 20, 1889)

American printer and publisher. He was the son-in-law of Thomas Willis White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. His residence at the end of his life was at 404 West Marshall Street, Richmond, VA. He was one of the founders of the Richmond Typographical Union. His son, William H. Bernard (1837-1918), served as a Major for the Confederate army during the Civil War, and later lived in Wilmington, NC, where he founded the Wilmington Morning Star.

No portrait has been located.

 

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Letters:


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Bibliography:

  • Anonymous, “Death of Peter D. Bernard,” Daily Times (Richmond, VA), December 21, 1889, p. 4, col. 2.
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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