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Robert Carter
(Born: February 5, 1819 - Died: February 15, 1879)
American journalist, editor, author and minor poet. Along with James Russell Lowell, Carter co-edited the short-lived magazine the Pioneer. He was a member of the anti-slavery Free Soil party. For a time, he was the Washington correspondent for the New York Tribune. He married Anna Gray, and later Susan Nichols. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England, Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1864 (also New York: Oliver S. Felt).
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- E. A. Poe to R. Carter - February 16, 1843 (OL#152) (considered doubtful by T. O. Mabbott, but clearly authentic)
- E. A. Poe to R. Carter - March 7, 1843 (OL#153a)
- R. Carter to E. A. Poe - June 19, 1843
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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.
- 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.
- Tucker, Edward L., “James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter: The Pioneer and Fifty Letters from Lowell to Carter,” Studies in the American Renasissance: 1987, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987
- Warner, Charles Dudley, ed., “Biographical Dictionary of Authors,” Library of the World’s Best Literature, New York: The International Society, 1896, 42:96 (a brief entry)
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