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Benjamin Matthias


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Sections:  Biography    Criticism    Bibliography


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(Born: ca. 1807 - Died: August 14, 1852)

American journalist, editor and statesman. He was editor of the Philadelphia Saturday Chronicle. In his later years he was a state senator. He was buried in Monument Cemetery, in Philadelphia, which is now defunct and much of which is often under water. The cause of his death was listed as softening of the brain.

 

Criticism:

  • Notice from “Autography”
    • “Benjm. Matthias” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

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Bibliography:

  • 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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