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Daniel Bryan
(Born: ca. 1790 - Died: December 22, 1866)
Poet, lawyer, statesman, abolitionist, and postmaster of Alexandria, VA. He was a nephew of Daniel Boone. He graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in 1807. During the war of 1812, he served as a colonel. He married Rebecca Davenport in 1815, but she died in July 1816. On April 8, 1818 he married Mary Thomas Barbour. Bryan began as postmaster in April 1821, and resigned in 1853. He died in Washington, DC, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. (A modern tombstone apparently shows incorrect birth and death dates.)
- Notice from “Autography”
- “Dan. Bryan” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
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- D. Bryan to E. A. Poe - May 13, 1842
- D. Bryan to E. A. Poe - June 27, 1842
- E. A. Poe to D. Bryan - July 6, 1842 (OL#139)
- D. Bryan to E. A. Poe - July 11, 1842
- D. Bryan to E. A. Poe - July 26, 1842
- D. Bryan to E. A. Poe August 4, 1842
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- Binns, Elizabeth, “Daniel Bryan, Poe’s Poet of ‘the good old Goldsmith school,’ “ William and Mary Quarterly, 1943, 23:465-473.
- 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.
- Hubbell, The South in American Literature, 1608-1900, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1954, pp. 287-293 and 918-919.
- 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)
- Studer, Wayne Malcolm, “The Frustrated Muse: The Life and Works of Daniel Bryan,” doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1984
- 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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