Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People

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Sections: Biography Criticism Letters Bibliography

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(Born: 1809 - Died: December 12, 1878)

American artist and author. He was born in New York City, to Samuel and Ann Osborn. His father was a prominent physician. Laughton Osborn graduated from what is now Columbia University in 1827. He died in New York City and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Criticism:

Review of Confessions of a Poet (April 1835, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)
Notice from “The Literati”
- “Laughton Osborn” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. II) — June 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book
- “Laughton Osborn” — 1848 — Literary America
- “Laughton Osborn” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS

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Letters:

L. Osborn to E. A. Poe - August 14, 1845
E. A. Poe to L. Osborn - August 15, 1845 (OL#206/OS4#206)
L. Osborn to E. A. Poe - August 16, 1845
L. Osborn to E. A. Poe - October 1, 1845
L. Osborn to E. A. Poe - November 12, 1845

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Bibliography:

Anonymous, “Death of Laughton Osborne,” New York Sun (NY, NY), vol. XLVI, no. 106, December 15, 1878, p. 1, cols. 1-2.
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Laughton Osborne,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:466-467
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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