Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Horace Binney Wallace (William Landor)

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Sections: Biography Criticism Letters Bibliography

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(Born: February 26, 1817 - Died: December 16, 1852)

American lawyer, author and critic. His parents were John Bradford Wallace and Susan Binney Wallace. He was the last of six children, and was named for his maternal uncle, Horace Binney (1780-1875). He died in Paris, where he had travelled for health reasons. His death is thought to have been a suicide. He is buried in a family vault in St. Peter’s Episcopal Churchyard, Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA. Wallace had no children and never married.

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Criticism:

Notice from “Autography”
- “William Landor [H. B. Wallace]” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part I) — November 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

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Letters:

E. A. Poe to W. Landor [H. B. Wallace] - July 7, 1841 (OL#119)

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Bibliography:

Anonymous, “Obituary: The Late Horace Binney Wallace,” American Law Register, vol. I, March 1853, pp. 310-315.
Binney, Horace, Obituary [[of]] Horace Binney Wallace,” Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1853 (a pamphlet)
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Horace Binney Wallace,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:638-640
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.
Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 6:335 (part of an entry on John Bradford Wallace)

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