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Sections: Biography Letters Criticism Bibliography
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William Evans Burton
(Born: September 24, 1802 - Died: February 10, 1860)
Actor and editor. For the correction of the year of his birth as 1802 rather than 1804, see Poe in Philadelphia, p. 726.
- Notice from “Autography”
- “W. E. Burton” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
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- W. E. Burton to E. A. Poe - May 10 (11), 1839
- W. E. Burton to E. A. Poe - May 30, 1839
- W. E. Burton to E. A. Poe (?) - July 4, 1839
- E. A. Poe to W. E. Burton - June 1, 1840 (OL#93)
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- 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.
- Lester, Lisle, “William E. Burton, the Comedian,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (New York, NY), vol. XIX, no. 4, April 1885, pp. 487-490
- 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.
- Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 1:472-473.
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